AGI
“I think AGI will start to emerge within the next five to ten years.”
- Said
- Mar 2025
- Deadline
- five to ten years
- Source
- briefing →
- Verdict
- not yet
What would settle this
Settles against the far end of the stated range. Requires broad acceptance among researchers outside the labs that a system matches human capability across essentially all cognitive tasks. Contested claims of AGI by a lab about its own model do not meet it.
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About Demis Hassabis
Chief executive and co-founder of DeepMind, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. Has generally placed human-level AI roughly a decade out, and has argued current systems still lack key reasoning capabilities.
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