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20102010s
Shane Legg
DeepMind co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist who helped define and popularize the term 'artificial general intelligence'.
Organizations
DeepMindIDSIAUniversity College London
Major Achievements
- •Co-founded DeepMind Technologies in 2010 with Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman.
- •Helped coin and popularize the modern usage of the term 'artificial general intelligence' (AGI) in the early 2000s.
- •Formalized a mathematical definition of universal machine intelligence with his PhD advisor Marcus Hutter.
- •As Chief AGI Scientist, shaped DeepMind's long-term research agenda and its early emphasis on AI safety.
Key Papers
- Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
Shane Legg, Marcus Hutter · Minds and Machines · 2007
- Human-Level Control through Deep Reinforcement Learning
Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver · Nature · 2015