Shane Legg
| Shane Legg | |
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| Born | New Zealand |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | University College London |
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| Thesis | Machine Super Intelligence (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marcus Hutter |
| Known for | DeepMind Technologies |
Shane Legg is a machine learning researcher and founder of DeepMind Technologies, acquired by Google in 2014.
Legg attended Rotorua Lakes High School in Rotorua, on New Zealand's North Island He completed his PhD working on theoretical models of super intelligent machines (AIXI) with Prof. Marcus Hutter. His PhD thesis entitled Machine Super Intelligence was completed in 2008. He was awarded the $10,000 Canadian Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence prize.
Legg's main research interests are in artificial intelligence, both theory and practice. In particular, he is interested in measures of intelligence for machines, neural networks, artificial evolution, reinforcement learning and the theory of learning. He has worked on these topics in both commercial and academic environments.
In 2010, Shane Legg cofounded the start-up DeepMind Technologies along with Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman. Hassabis and Legg first met at UCL's Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, where Legg was a research associate.
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