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ATHENS, Greece — A top Google scientist and 2024 Nobel laureate said Friday that the most important skill for the next generation will be \u201clearning how to learn\u201d to keep pace with change as Artificial Intelligence<\/a> transforms education and the workplace.<\/p>\n

Speaking at an ancient Roman theater at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, Demis Hassabis<\/a>, CEO of Google\u2019s DeepMind, said rapid technological change demands a new approach to learning and skill development.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to predict the future, like 10 years from now, in normal cases. It\u2019s even harder today, given how fast AI is changing, even week by week,\u201d Hassabis told the audience. \u201cThe only thing you can say for certain is that huge change is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

The neuroscientist and former chess prodigy said artificial general intelligence<\/a> \u2014 a futuristic vision of machines that are as broadly smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can \u2014 could arrive within a decade. This, he said, will bring dramatic advances and a possible future of \u201cradical abundance\u201d despite acknowledged risks.<\/p>\n

Hassabis emphasized the need for \u201cmeta-skills,\u201d such as understanding how to learn and optimizing one\u2019s approach to new subjects, alongside traditional disciplines like math, science and humanities.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing we\u2019ll know for sure is you\u2019re going to have to continually learn … throughout your career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The DeepMind co-founder, who established the London-based research lab in 2010 before Google acquired it four years later, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize<\/a> in chemistry for developing AI systems that accurately predict protein folding \u2014 a breakthrough for medicine and drug discovery.<\/p>\n

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/a> joined Hassabis at the Athens event after discussing ways to expand AI use in government services. Mitsotakis warned that the continued growth of huge tech companies could create great global financial inequality.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless people actually see benefits, personal benefits, to this (AI) revolution, they will tend to become very skeptical,” he said. “And if they see … obscene wealth being created within very few companies, this is a recipe for significant social unrest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitsotakis thanked Hassabis, whose father is Greek Cypriot, for rescheduling the presentation to avoid conflicting with the European basketball championship semifinal between Greece and Turkey. Greece later lost the game 94-68.<\/p>\n

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Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS, Greece — A top Google scientist and 2024 Nobel laureate said Friday that the most important skill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[43277,291,584,289,290,79,18,3334,19,17,43208,82,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-60628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-43277","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-nobel-prizes","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}