Few advancements could cause both the excitement and fear AI elicits - according to some, it’s the solution to humanity’s problems. Others will tell you it’s the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it. Andrew Williams investigates.
At IBC2023, a Google DeepMind talk covered the state of AI today, and what artificial intelligence could bring to society in the future.
DeepMind is the AI arm of Google and was established in 2010. It recently announced Gemini, the next generation of Google artificial intelligence. However, the talk at IBC2023 by Dex Hunter-Torricke, DeepMind Head of Global Communications and Marketing, took a step back from the tech specifics, to look at how it is affecting, and will affect the way we live and work...
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