The Future of AI: DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis Feels We’re Close to a Massive Leap
“I think right now we’re on the verge of something truly historic and we have moved far beyond where we were the last time,” said Hassabis, Google DeepMind’s founder. Hassabis elaborated on this subject in a recent interview, with his thoughts concerning the unfolding of artificial intelligence, time frames, and why the human mind remains distinct.
A Much-Greater Jump Nearing
Hassabis sees AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, as possibly attained within five to ten years. While today’s artificial intelligence tools recognize patterns in. What Hassabis considers our human minds can do is think, reason, and solve problems. Weight would be given to context; new ideas would emerge; perhaps even questions that no one has asked before would be put forth.
Yet he underscored that we are not yet at that stage. Those AI may seem powerful, but Hassabis said they have basically just been taught on massive volumes of current human knowledge. They cannot envision anything untrained or conjure up anything creative or original. They’re missing that special spark of creativity—the kind of deep, original thinking that only the human mind can truly pull off.
Creativity, however, remains with us
An AI today may not consider the world as it is understood by the likes of us. With imagination and self-awareness absent, it is unable to put forth its questions and ideas. Present-day AI is somewhere toward a very large compendium of everything humans have ever learned—it is helpful, surely but unable to think in ways we have not yet trained it to. Before we can begin to think about building intentional machines, we should first use AI to understand our own brains much better, he added. This would facilitate the development of tools for neuroscience that are not just intelligent but also safe.
Revolution In Robotics Is Just Around The Corner
Going beyond AGI, Hassabis also forecast an impending major leap in robotics, probably in some years. He was talking about other kinds of machines, humanoid robots that would start doing real, useful work in stores by the time they count first. The robots will not only move but will also appreciably respond and understand their
environment.
AI To The Rescue In Illness Treatment
Medicine is one of his most promising forecasts. It takes about a decade and perhaps billions of dollars to bring a new drug on stream. According to Hassabis, artificial intelligence can help that process enormously, so much so that it cuts down the time from decades of study to just a couple of months or weeks, even. He said, Artificial intelligence would take us to the doorstep of the cure for several diseases in the next decade.
The Mission’s Creator
Demis Hassabis breaks away from the typical idea most people have of what a scientist looks or acts like. A PhD in neuroscience studiously graced by time at some of the top universities on the planet- Harvard, MIT and Cambridge stands out from the crowd. The fledgling enterprise DeepMind was set up in 2010 with him; afterward, the company was bought by Google. Hassabis developed AlphaFold together with John Jumper, a watershed artificial intelligence app for the prediction of protein structure. Their groundbreaking discovery led to them winning the Nobel Prize
Prize in Chemistry in 2024, and that same year, King Charles honored them with a knighthood.
Moving Fast, Yet Cautious
Hasabis said AI is moving fast. Resources and talents are pooling together and being bestowed with unprecedented fame, propelling their progress in ways unthought of. Still, he cautioned, just like with a black box, we do not always know how the AI will behave or what it will learn. For that reason, to him, it is critical to build systems with strong values and security like a parent would have for its child. Creativity for the moment is still with us humans. In the future, however, it is something that might be with us and AI participating.
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