DeepMind CEO: 'AGI' Is Coming Soon, But Here's the Test It Must Pass First
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will emerge within the next few years, specifically around 2030. He emphasizes that AGI's arrival will be gradual rather than abrupt, leading to significant innovations. Hassabis also proposes a test to determine AGI's capabilities based on historical scientific insights.
- ▪DeepMind researchers won a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2024 for advances in computing protein structures.
- ▪Hassabis believes AGI will arrive around 2030 and will come through a series of gradual upgrades.
- ▪He suggests a test to evaluate AGI by training it on physics up to 1901 and assessing its ability to replicate Einstein's discoveries.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—In an industry overflowing with substance-starved hype, Google’s DeepMind subsidiary has built a reputation for delivering not just attention-getting demonstrations of AI smarts but legit scientific breakthroughs. In 2024, DeepMind researchers won a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for advances in computing protein structures.That made it a little strange to see DeepMind CEO and co-founder Demis Hassabis—one of those Nobel honorees—lead off his part of Google I/O’s opening keynote this week with a profession that “artificial general intelligence is just a few years away.” So-called AGI has been a somewhat vaporous talking point in the business for years, used to justify making engineers work 60-hour weeks, touted as the foundation of a coming technological…
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