Google AI CEO Demis Hassabi on how ChatGPT ‘launch’ in November 2022 changed everything for AI labs, and not for good; says: It started a dangerous…
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says ChatGPT’s viral 2022 launch triggered a “ferocious commercial pressure race” that nobody—including OpenAI—was prepared for. Speaking to Cleo Abram, he said every major lab had equivalent systems at the time; OpenAI just shipped first. Hassabis had wanted AI kept in the lab longer, focused on scientific breakthroughs. Now…