4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Google's AI research division — formed from the 2023 merger of Google Brain and DeepMind — responsible for AlphaGo, AlphaFold, Gemini, and foundational deep learning research.
American AI safety researcher and forecaster — former OpenAI researcher — who published Situational Awareness (2024), a detailed forecast of AGI development timelines arguing that AGI will arrive by 2027 and will trigger a geopolitical race with China — whose departure from OpenAI and publication became a major AI policy event.
San Francisco AI research and deployment company — founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and others — creator of the GPT series, DALL-E, and ChatGPT — the company most responsible for bringing large language models into mainstream use.
New Zealand AI researcher — co-founder of DeepMind — whose PhD dissertation defined general machine intelligence and whose prediction that a 50% chance of AGI by 2028 (made in 2011) has become one of the most discussed AI forecasts.