DeepMind CEO Criticizes Social Media AI Hype After OpenAI Researcher’s Post
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, publicly criticized what he characterized as excessive AI promotion on social media, according to MIT Technology Review.
Hassabis responded on X (formerly Twitter) to a post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at OpenAI, with the comment: “This is embarrassing,” the publication reports. Bubeck’s post announced that two mathematicians had used OpenAI’s latest large language model, though the specific details of their work were not included in the available excerpt.
The exchange highlights growing concerns about what MIT Technology Review describes as “the worst of AI boosterism” being encouraged by social media platforms. The incident appears to reflect tensions between major AI companies and differing views on how research achievements should be communicated publicly.
The criticism from Hassabis, who leads one of the world’s premier AI research organizations, suggests internal debate within the AI community about appropriate standards for announcing technological developments and research results on social media platforms.