Shane Legg
The One Who Said AGI
Co-founding DeepMind and defining machine intelligence
Rating
88Impact score
Domains
AGIMachine intelligence theorySafety
Scouting report
Co-founded DeepMind with Hassabis and Suleyman and is chief AGI scientist there. His doctoral work with Marcus Hutter produced a formal definition of machine intelligence, and he popularised the term AGI at a point when saying it out loud was a career risk. Has publicly held a rough timeline for human-level AI since 2011.
Curator’s note
Was using the word AGI in public when it still got you laughed at.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Shane Legg by Libor.burian, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Shane Legg en.wikipedia.org
- 02Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007) arxiv.org