“Google DeepMind Founder and Leader in Artificial Intelligence Returns to Hamilton”, 2018-05-07 (; backlinks; similar):
It was at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit where he met Demis Hassabis, who introduced him to Mustafa Suleyman, and DeepMind was formed shortly after from a shared passion and grand plans.
“We were believers that great things were going to happen in this area in the coming years”, Legg said. “When we started DeepMind, we had grand plans. We really believed that machine learning and artificial intelligence were certainly going to take off, and if that did happen, we’d be able to grow DeepMind into quite a large organization. We had big plans and, amazingly, the plans have worked out. You still have to pinch yourself when you see the reality of it.”
Despite being at the forefront of artificial intelligence for some time, Legg said he was still regularly in awe by what machines were able to achieve…But even New Zealand’s most influential global Kiwi in the technology field said there’s no way of knowing what the future holds for artificial intelligence.
“Nobody knows what it’s going to look like in another 10–20 years. I am quite confident, talking to people in hardware, that at least for the next few years, the performance of microprocessors, the amount of information they can process, the amount of mathematical calculations they can perform in a second, will keep growing very rapidly for a few years”, he said. “After that, it’s anybody’s guess what will happen.”