It's also worth it to note as well that this isn't a homogenous organization, many DeepMind employees have different opinions on issues like this and an individual paper isn't representative of the entire organization.
Please don't consider my critique of this paper as an indictment of DeepMind as a whole!
> Many of DeepMind's opinion style papers are like this.
That's good to know. I have not read many of their opinion papers, and I'll admit I didn't have the context of it being an "opinion" paper.
That said, I don't agree with the opinion. The paper didn't really engage with the concept of AGI in a way that I found satisfying. The conclusion may very well be correct, but this paper wasn't enough to convince me.
Slightly OT: My views were reinforced when I saw the paper was praised by Patricia Churchland. I don't find her take on consciousness a satisfying one, though I find the general direction of her work interesting. See here for another example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/nvtgwr/grand_th...