OpenAI and Anthropic over-rotated on building single-agent systems
Mustafa Suleyman · No Priors Ep. 16 | With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection · May 11, 2023 · at 11:57
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, critiques prevailing approaches to artificial general intelligence.
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“I think in a weird way, it's over rotated the entire field on one aspect of intelligence, which is generality, you know, and I think open AI and then subsequently anthropic and others have taken up this default sort of mantra that like it, all that matters is Can a single agent do everything? You know, can it be multimodal? Can it do translation and speech generation recognition, et cetera.”
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