Denis Hassabis, who is the CEO of DeepMind, a startup that was acquired by Google in 2014, has made a bold claim that AI could reach human-level cognition in as little as five years.

Artificial intelligence can match human intelligence in five years: Google DeepMind CEO

Adriana MaraisMay 4, 23 AI, Artificial Intelligence, DeepMind CEO, Google

2023 is shaping up to be the year of artificial intelligence, with generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Bing and Google’s Bard making headlines. People’s jobs are at risk as IBM halts hiring for 7,800 positions. And the fear of artificial intelligence surpassing human abilities continues. Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI,” left Google citing concerns about its dangers. Despite the benefits that AI brings, such as increased efficiency and productivity, the fear that AI will overtake humans and become too intelligent for its own good is a fear that has been discussed time and time again.

Now, another Google executive, Denis Hassabis, who is the CEO of DeepMind, a startup Google bought in 2014, has made a bold claim that AI could reach human-level cognition in as little as five years.

Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything festival in New York, Hassabis said the development of the AI space should not be slowed down. “I think we’ll have very capable, very common systems in the next few years,” and he “sees no reason why development will slow down. I think it may even accelerate.” He added: “So I think we could be in just a few years, maybe ten years.”

According to Fortune , Google announced last month that it will merge the core of its A.I. research team with DeepMind, the startup founded by Demis Hassabis, who will become CEO of the newly merged entity. DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014.

In related news, Geoffrey Hinton, touted as the “Godfather of AI,” left Google to voice his concerns. Hinton, winner of the Turing Award, the Nobel Prize in computer science, has expressed concern that future versions of artificial intelligence could pose a threat because they often learn unexpected behavior from the vast amounts of data they analyze. This is especially worrying because AI systems may soon be creating and running their own code, which could lead to truly autonomous weapons and killer robots becoming a reality.

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