{"id":180313,"date":"2025-12-08T02:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180313\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T02:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:35:06","slug":"demis-hassabis-says-ai-scaling-must-be-pushed-to-the-maximum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180313\/","title":{"rendered":"Demis Hassabis Says AI Scaling ‘Must Be Pushed to the Maximum’"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a debate rippling through Silicon Valley: How far can scaling laws<\/a> take the technology?<\/p>\n

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis<\/a>, whose company just released Gemini 3 to widespread acclaim, has made it clear where he stands on the issue.<\/p>\n

“The scaling of the current systems, we must push that to the maximum, because at the minimum, it will be a key component of the final AGI system,” he said at the Axios’ AI+ Summit in San Francisco last week. “It could be the entirety of the AGI system.”<\/p>\n

AGI, or artificial general intelligence<\/a>, is a still theoretical version of AI that reasons as well as humans. It’s the goal all the leading AI companies are competing to reach, fueling huge amounts of spending<\/a> on infrastructure and talent.<\/p>\n

AI scaling laws suggest that the more data and compute an AI model is given, the smarter it will get.<\/p>\n

Hassabis said that scaling alone will likely get the industry to AGI, but that he suspects there will need to be”one or two” other breakthroughs as well.<\/p>\n

The problem with scaling alone is that there is a limit to publicly available data, and adding compute means building data centers<\/a>, which is expensive and taxing on the environment.<\/p>\n

Some AI watchers are also concerned that the AI companies behind the leading large-language models are beginning to show diminishing returns<\/a> on their massive investments in scaling.<\/p>\n

Researchers like Yann LeCun<\/a>, the chief AI scientist at Meta who recently announced he was leaving to run his own startup, believe the industry needs to consider another way.<\/p>\n

“Most interesting problems scale extremely badly,” he said at the National University of Singapore in April. “You cannot just assume that more data and more compute means smarter AI.”<\/p>\n

LeCun is leaving Meta to work on building world models, an alternative to large-language models that rely on collecting spatial data rather than language-based data.<\/p>\n

“The goal of the startup is to bring about the next big revolution in AI: systems that understand the physical world, have persistent memory, can reason, and can plan complex action sequences,” he wrote on LinkedIn in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s a debate rippling through Silicon Valley: How far can scaling laws take the technology? Google DeepMind CEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,92833,218,219,51620,98127,98126,31927,61,60,3682,6717,98124,1226,98125,98128,19227,2716,80,79033],"class_list":["post-180313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-scaling","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-compute","tag-current-system","tag-final-agi-system","tag-goal","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-large-language-model","tag-law","tag-maximum","tag-meta","tag-more-datum","tag-own-startup","tag-problem","tag-researcher","tag-technology","tag-yann-lecun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}