Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we may have AGI ‘in the next few years’
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, recently predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) systems would reach human-level cognition somewhere between “the next few years” and “maybe within a decade.”
Hassabis, who got his start in the gaming industry, co-founded Google DeepMind (formerly DeepMind Technologies), the company known for developing the AlphaGo AI system responsible for beating the world’s top human Go players.
In a recent interview conducted during The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything festival, Hassabis told interviewer Chris Mims he believes the arrival of machines with human-level cognition is imminent:
These comments come just two weeks after internal restructuring led Google to announce the merging of “Google AI” and “DeepMind” into the aptly named “Google DeepMind.”
When asked to define “AGI” — artificial general intelligence — Hassabis responded: “human-level cognition.”
There currently exists no standardized definition, test or benchmark for AGI widely accepted by the science, technology, engineering and math community. Nor is there a unified scientific consensus on whether AGI is even possible.
Some notable figures such as Roger Penrose (Stephen Hawking’s long-time research partner) believe AGI can’t be achieved, while others think it could take decades or centuries for scientists and engineers to figure it out.
Among those who are bullish on AGI in the near term, or some similar form of human-level AI, are Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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