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Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch said the obsession with creating general AI is about "creating God." The AI CEO doesn't believe Elon Musk and Sam Altman's predictions that AI will surpass human intelligence. AdvertisementMistral's founder and CEO Arthur Mensch doesn't believe in god — and therefore, he doesn't believe in artificial general intelligence. Artificial general intelligence, also referred to as AGI, is a level of AI that will outperform humans. Mensch said he felt uncomfortable with Silicon Valley's religious fascination with general AI.
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Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski is relaunching his "Way of the Future" AI church. Levandowski was previously pardoned by Donald Trump after pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets. AdvertisementAnthony Levandowski, a pioneer of self-driving cars and controversial Silicon Valley figure, announced the return of his AI-dedicated church in an episode of Bloomberg's AI IRL podcast. Levandowski started his "Way of the Future" church in 2015 while he was working as an engineer on Google's self-driving project Waymo. The engineer was pardoned in 2021 by the outgoing president at the time, Donald Trump.
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Waymo said service will first begin with safety drivers behind the wheel and, later, with just Waymo employees as riders. “When we think about our next cities, Los Angeles jumps out,” said Waymo’s co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana in Wednesday's blog post. Alphabet -owned Waymo said Wednesday it plans to expand its self-driving ride-hailing service, Waymo One, to Los Angeles. The self-driving car industry has been slow to progress and live up to lofty promises, but that's especially true of Waymo. Waymo announced plans in March to remove safety drivers for fully-autonomous rides, but those are still only available to Waymo employees, the spokesperson confirmed.
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