The AI world has been debating for years when the arrival of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, will happen. AGI broadly refers to AI that is smarter than humans.
Hassabis said that the AI industry is "on the path towards AGI," which he describes as "a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities humans have."
"I think we're close now, you know, maybe we are only, you know, perhaps 5 years or something away from a system like that which would be pretty extraordinary," Hassabis said.