Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts that AI could achieve human-level cognitive abilities in the next five years.
Hassabis also acknowledges that the rapid development of AI in the last few years has been incredible and could even accelerate in the future.
As of now, artificial general intelligence is a topic of contention in the AI community, but Hassabis believes we could see "very general systems in the next few years."
DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research have united as Google DeepMind to enhance progress towards a world where AI can help deal with the biggest challenges faced by humanity.