Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we may have AGI ‘in the next few years’

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 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 [...]