Google DeepMind Chair and Alphabet Chief Scientist Demis Hassabis on the Human Brain: “a Biological Approximation to a Turing Machine”

Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

Brains aren’t computers, but the AI industry acts like they are — and it’s selling products that erode our capacity for meaningful learning and thought.

Google DeepMind chair and Alphabet chief scientist Demis Hassabis on the human brain: “a biological approximation to a Turing machine”

Demis Hassabis’s line about the brain became the emblem of a Verge essay against AI in learning. The full sentence, from his Dædalus interview, is narrower, and it doubles as Google DeepMind’s yardstick for AGI.