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Sparks of AGI : Google X ’ s AI is teaching itself new skills “ It ' s the most existential debate and challenge humanity will ever face . This is bigger than climate change , way bigger than Covid … This will redefine the way the world is , in unprecedented shapes and forms , within the next few years . This is imminent . We ' re not talking 2040 . We ' re talking 2025 , 2026 .”
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Mo Gawdat , AI Expert and former Chief Business Officer
Mo Gawdat , AI Expert , and former Google X Chief Business Officer says his most notable experience with AI - a rude awakening concerning the potential of realising AGI - was in witnessing a groundbreaking experiment at Google X .
The team developed a farm of grippers — robotic arms designed to potentially pick objects up . Initially , the grippers struggled to accomplish this seemingly simple task . However , Gawdat vividly recounts a pivotal moment when one of the grippers autonomously picks up a yellow ball : They had not been taught how to do so .
“ The minute that that arm gripped that yellow ball ,” he says , “ it reminded me of my son Ali , when he managed to put the first puzzle piece in its place .”
Naturally sceptical ; believing it to be a fluke , Gawdat went about the facility glibly proclaiming that the millions of dollars spent on the project had finally culminated in - the lifting of a single yellow ball . And then he was stunned .
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