Modern AI systems good but inconsistent: DeepMind CEO

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is still about five to eight years away and systems must be trained further to have the capability to learn on their own, said Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer and cofounder of Google DeepMind, speaking about AI that can perform any intellectual task a human can.

- AVIK DAS

Hassabis, one of the world’s most well-known AI researchers, said the bar for achieving AGI remains high because such systems would need to integrate the full range of human cognitive capabilities.

“Today’s systems are impressive but they still have flaws and one of the major ones is inconsistency across tasks,” he said on Wednesday in a discussion with Balaraman Ravindran, head of the department of data science and AI at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.