To make matters worse, this new contender might even be exploiting his ideas. OpenAI had seven people listed as cofounders on its website. When Hassabis took a closer look at the names, he realized that five of them had worked as consultants and interns at DeepMind for several months. That’s when he became livid, according to people who worked with him. Hassabis had been an open book with DeepMind staff about the different strategies they needed to chase to reach AGI, such as building autonomous agents or teaching AI models to play games like Chess and Go. Now five scientists who’d heard all
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