Alphabet Appoints Demis Hassabis Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind Sees Leadership Change
Summary
Alphabet has named Demis Hassabis its new Chief Scientist, shifting him away from day-to-day leadership of Google DeepMind to focus on long-term AI strategy and safe development of AGI. Several prominent Google researchers have also left to launch a new startup called Discovery Loop.
Key Points
- Alphabet appointed Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis as its new Chief Scientist, creating a leadership shift at the AI division.
- Hassabis will focus on long-term AI strategy and research into Artificial General Intelligence, while remaining chairman of DeepMind.
- DeepMind CTO Kori Kawukcuoglu will take over daily responsibilities and also serve as Alphabet’s Chief AI Architect.
- Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to found the AI startup Discovery Loop.
