While artificial intelligence like OpenAI’s ChatGPT promises to revolutionize every aspect of the economy, the true holy grail for A.I. researchers—artificial general intelligence, or AGI—has been elusive. It’s when a machine can understand the world at least as well as a human. Experts say it will take a few years to a few decades to achieve the goal, if it can even truly exist. The head of Google’s main A.I. research lab, for one, leans toward sooner rather than later.
“I think we’ll have very capable, very general systems in the next few years,” Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, said Tuesday during a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal.
