Deepmind's Hassabis sees humanity "in the foothills of the singularity" while LeCun says current AI isn't intelligent

In three linesDemis Hassabis (DeepMind) claims humanity is "standing in the foothills of the singularity," while Yann LeCun argues current AI systems aren't genuinely intelligent. Oriol Vinyals (Gemini co-lead) takes a middle position: today's models would have looked like AGI seven years ago, but they still can't learn from experience or produce real breakthroughs.

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