Deepmind founder Hassabis shortens AGI timeline from five to two to three years
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Demis Hassabis, the founder of Google DeepMind and a Nobel laureate in chemistry, has significantly reduced his estimated timeline for the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to just two or three years. Previously predicting a window of three to five years earlier this year, Hassabis now states that the technology is approaching rapidly, describing its potential impact as ten times greater than the Industrial Revolution but occurring at ten times the speed. He defines AGI as a system capable of matching the full cognitive range of the human brain. To test this capability, Hassabis proposes an "Einstein test," which would require a system trained only on pre-1901 knowledge to successfully reproduce Einstein's groundbreaking papers from 1905. Although he has stepped down from his role at Google DeepMind to focus on Isomorphic Labs, his views on AI safety remain prominent. He advocates for an industry-funded oversight board under government control to vet models before release, warning that poor regulation is more dangerous than having no regulation at all.
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