Shane Legg is known for his academic work on artificial general intelligence, including his thesis supervised by Marcus Hutter.
10 Facts About Shane Legg
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Shane Legg completed his undergraduate studies at Waikato University in 1996.
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Shane Legg is known for his concern of existential risk from AI, highlighted in 2011 in an interview on LessWrong and in 2023 he signed the statement on AI risk of extinction.
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Shane Legg later obtained a PhD at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, a joint research institute of USI Universita della Svizzera italiana and SUPSI.
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Shane Legg worked on theoretical models of super intelligent machines with Marcus Hutter, and completed in 2008 his doctoral thesis entitled "Machine Super Intelligence".
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Shane Legg then went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in finance at USI, and began a further fellowship at University College London's Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.
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Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg first met in 2009 at University College London, where Legg was a postdoctoral researcher.
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In 2010, Shane Legg cofounded the start-up DeepMind Technologies along with Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman.
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Shane Legg was awarded the $10,000 prize of the Canadian Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence for his PhD done in 2008.
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Shane Legg was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the science and technology sector and to investment.