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.
Creates the mathematical definition of general machine intelligence — Legg's dissertation formalized the concept of universal intelligence as performance averaged over all environments weighted by complexity, providing the most rigorous academic definition of what AGI means.
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