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Shane Legg
Google DeepMindCo-founder and Chief AGI Scientist
Legg co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and helped popularize the term "AGI," and earlier proposed a formal definition of machine intelligence in his PhD work. He is co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, where he leads the technical AGI safety team.[1]
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2010-presentCo-founder and Chief AGI Scientist
Google DeepMind2010-presentPreviously
UCL2009-2010Postdoc, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
University of Lugano2007-2008Postdoc
UCL2009-2010University of Lugano2007-2008Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Selected contributions
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
With Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Andrei A. Rusu, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare, Alex Graves and others ·Presented DQN, learning to play 49 Atari games from screen images and game scores.
Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
Taught AI agents tasks using people's comparisons of their behavior rather than hand-written rewards.
References
- Shane Legg — TED speaker biographyted.com
He is co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, where he leads the technical AGI safety team.
- Levels of AGIarxiv.org
The authors propose rating AI systems by performance and generality while considering autonomy and deployment separately.
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