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Quickest Path To AGI Uses Existing Web Knowledge As Prior

While a pure-RL, no-priors AlphaZero-style path to AGI is theoretically possible, the quickest and most plausible path is to use all existing world knowledge from the Web via scalable algorithms like transformers as a prior, then add planning and search on top; the final AGI will likely include large multimodal models but not rely on them alone.

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Speaker

Demis Hassabis

Evidence Quote

the final AGI system will have these large multimodal models as part of the overall solution, but they probably won’t be enough on their own. You’ll need this additional planning search on top.

Source

Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFoldDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:35:13 AM

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