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80 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 31 Oct \ on: The Man Who Invented AGI AI
Wait... everyone is still obsessed with AGI? I thought we left that behind in June. I thought we all knew by now that it's a mirage to keep people afraid?
Nothing to be scared of, yet. Just some backstory!
Gubrud did manage to claim credit in naming AGI. In the mid-2000s, Gubrud himself called it to the attention of those popularizing the term. As Legg puts it, “Somebody pops up out of the woodwork and says, ‘Oh, I came up with the term in ‘97,' and we're like, 'Who the hell are you?' And then sure enough, we looked it up, and he had a paper that had it. So [instead of inventing it] I kind of reinvented the term." (Legg of course is the cofounder and chief AGI scientist at Google’s DeepMind.)