AI research team at Google focused on deep learning
Google has reorganised its AI leadership: Demis Hassabis has stepped back from day-to-day running of DeepMind to become its chair and Alphabet chief scientist, and Koray Kavukcuoglu has been promoted to senior vice-president to run Google DeepMind. Several senior engineers, including Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, have left to launch a new startup; Alphabet shares have fallen.
More than 20 AI researchers warn that automation in model development could trigger an intelligence explosion, while industry voices call for internationally coordinated safety reviews and standards to slow the pace of progress and guard against harms.