Why does it matter?
A 2030 AGI signal from Google leadership would put another major lab inside a near-term timeline window.
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So-called artificial general intelligence (AGI) - widely understood to mean AI that matches or surpasses most human capabilities - is likely to arrive sometime around 2030, Google's co-founder Sergey Brin and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Tuesday. Why it matters: Much of the AI industry now sees AGI as an inevitability, with predictions of its advent ranging from two years on the inside to 10 years on the outside, but there's little consensus on exactly what it will look like or how it will change our lives.
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