AI is a form of empirical philosophy. I bet that if Plato, Phyrro, Descartes or Wittgenstein were around now, they’d be tinkering with neural networks. With language models, with generative models and with agents.
Today’s officially my last day at Google DeepMind. I joined nearly 12 years ago to help understand intelligence and to build AGI.
My view is that we now know how to build AGI, even if we don’t fully understand it yet.
Next week I’m hopping over to @DiscoLoopAI to start pointing
Google I/O TLDR: Good improvements across the whole AI stack.
3.5 Flash (the model): More persistent than before and codes well. No wall yet.
Antigravity (the harness): Reliably runs for hours now. Early signs of hands-free self-improvement.
Spark (the interface): Finally