Google DeepMind Develops Language Model SayTap, Allowing Robot Dogs to Follow Human Voice Commands


Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis visited South Korea on April 27, holding high-level meetings with the president and executives from Samsung, LG, and Hyundai to discuss AI strategic cooperation. The core goal is to extend AI technology from the cloud to edge devices, advancing DeepMind's deployment in the terminal sector.....
South Korea's government signed an MOU with Google's DeepMind to collaborate on AI research, talent development, and responsible use. A key initiative is the National Science AI Research Center launching in May, targeting breakthroughs in eight fields including biology, meteorology, and climate.....
Google DeepMind hires Cambridge scholar Henry Shevlin as its first full-time philosopher, focusing on machine consciousness, human-AI relations, and AGI readiness, with active involvement in research.....
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts that artificial general intelligence (AGI) may be achieved within five years. He points out that current AI is in a phase of short-term over-hype and long-term underestimation, and emphasizes that the impact of the AI revolution will be ten times that of the industrial revolution, and will develop at ten times the speed.
To maintain its leading position in the AI competition, Google DeepMind has integrated the company's computing power and talent, broken down internal barriers, and successfully transformed from a follower to a leader, with operational efficiency comparable to that of a startup. CEO Hassabis emphasized that computing power is the biggest bottleneck in AI research, and resource integration has reshaped its competitiveness.