Margaret Mitchell: artificial general intelligence is ‘just vibes and snake oil’

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Hugging Face's co-founder, Thomas Wolf, is pouring cold water on the hopes that current AI systems could revolutionize scientific progress.

Margaret Mitchell: artificial general intelligence is ‘just vibes and snake oil’

One of the pioneers of AI ethics explains why human needs should be the central driver in the development of the technology

AI Ethics Pioneer Calls Artificial General Intelligence 'Just Vibes and Snake Oil'

Margaret Mitchell, chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face and founder of Google's responsible AI team, has dismissed artificial general intelligence as "just vibes and snake oil." Mitchell, who was ousted from Google in 2021, has co-written a paper arguing that AGI should not serve as a guiding principle for the AI industry. Mitchell contends that both "intelligence" and "general" lack clear definitions in AI contexts, creating what she calls an…