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Comment author: XiXiDu 27 January 2014 03:43:39PM 8 points [-]

Comment by Juergen Schmidhuber:

Our former PhD student Shane Legg is co-founder of deepmind (with Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman), just acquired by Google for ~$500m. Several additional ex-members of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA have joined deepmind, including Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Alex Graves.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 January 2014 03:55:44PM 9 points [-]

Yes, or in other words, these are the competent AGI researchers.