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Shane Legg is known for being a co-founder of DeepMind, in a business role (as I understand).

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An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

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noun

An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

noun

A surname transferred from the nickname.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for legg.

noun

An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

noun

A surname transferred from the nickname.

Example sentences

Shane Legg is known for being a co-founder of DeepMind, in a business role (as I understand).

They had already spent the severance from his job at Legg Mason.

How about Shane Legg (One of the cofounders of DeepMind)?

> Shane Legg is known for being a co-founder of DeepMind, in a business role (as I understand) You are quite mistaken.

Bill Miller, the chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management and a major Amazon shareholder, asked Bezos at the time about the profitability prospects for AWS.

Also, I thought this was hilarious: In a 2011 interview that predated DeepMind, co-founder Shane Legg said he gave only a 50 percent chance that human level-machine intelligence would exist by 2028.

Something we should always remember when considering the implications and hermeneutics of AWS pricing (from Brad Stone's book): Bill Miller, the chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management and a major Amazon shareholder, asked Bezos at the time about the profitability prospects for AWS.

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Shane Legg (one founder of DeepMind, purchased by Google) has written a number of good papers around the "measuring machine intelligence" problem.

FYI, Shane Legg's theses was "Machine Super Intelligence".

After categorizing the types of definitions, Shane Legg successfully used "Property of an agent that interacts with its environment so as to successfully achieve goals across a wide range of environments"[1] for his work in AI.

Here's a definition / explanation of AGI from the early days of DeepMind (from the movie "The thinking game"): Quote from Shane Legg: "Our mission was to build an AGI - an artificial general intelligence, and so that means that we need a system which is general - it doesn't learn to do one specific thing.

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Legg has multiple papers published in the field of measuring machine intelligence, so I guess he has a pretty good view of the field.

Stuart Russell, Michael Jordan, Shane Legg.

Shane Legg: It's my number 1 risk for this century, with an engineered biological pathogen coming a close second (though I know little about the latter).