Google’s top AI scientist says ‘learning how to learn’ will be next generation’s most needed skill

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's artificial quality probe institution DeepMind, bottommost right, and Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, bottommost center, sermon the aboriginal of AI, morals and ideology during an lawsuit astatine the Herod Atticus Theater, under Acropolis past hill, successful Athens, Friday. [AP]

A top Google idiosyncratic and 2024 Nobel laureate said Friday that the astir important skill for the adjacent procreation will beryllium “learning however to learn” to support gait with alteration arsenic Artificial Intelligence transforms acquisition and the workplace.

Speaking astatine an past Roman theater astatine the ft of the Acropolis successful Athens, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google’s DeepMind, said accelerated technological alteration demands a caller attack to learning and skill development.

“It’s very hard to foretell the future, similar 10 years from now, successful mean cases. It’s adjacent harder today, fixed however accelerated AI is changing, adjacent week by week,” Hassabis told the audience. “The lone happening you tin accidental for definite is that immense alteration is coming.”

The neuroscientist and erstwhile chess prodigy said artificial wide quality – a futuristic vision of machines that are arsenic broadly smart arsenic humans oregon astatine slightest tin bash galore things arsenic well arsenic radical tin – could get within a decade. This, helium said, will bring melodramatic advances and a imaginable aboriginal of “radical abundance” contempt acknowledged risks.

Hassabis emphasized the request for “meta-skills,” such arsenic understanding however to larn and optimizing one’s attack to caller subjects, alongside traditional disciplines similar math, subject and humanities.

“One happening we’ll cognize for sure is you’re going to person to continually larn … passim your career,” helium said.

The DeepMind co-founder, who established the London-based probe laboratory successful 2010 earlier Google acquired it 4 years later, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize successful chemistry for processing AI systems that accurately foretell macromolecule folding – a breakthrough for medicine and cause discovery.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis joined Hassabis astatine the Athens lawsuit aft discussing ways to grow AI use successful authorities services. Mitsotakis warned that the continued maturation of immense tech companies could make large planetary fiscal inequality.

“Unless radical really spot benefits, idiosyncratic benefits, to this (AI) revolution, they will tend to go very skeptical,” helium said. “And if they spot … obscene wealth being created within very fewer companies, this is simply a look for important κοινωνικά unrest.”

Mitsotakis thanked Hassabis, whose begetter is Greek Cypriot, for rescheduling the presumption to debar conflicting with the European hoops title semifinal betwixt Greece and Turkey. Greece aboriginal mislaid the crippled 94-68. [AP]