Demis Hassabis at Google I/O: "Artificial General Intelligence is just a few years away"

Reddit r/singularity 05/19/26, 07:30 PM News

Summary

Demis Hassabis stated at Google I/O that artificial general intelligence is just a few years away, marking a significant shift from his previously more conservative timeline of 5-10 years.

Demis’ timeline on AGI has been shrinking and shrinking lately. I believe he would consistently say 5-10 years away the past year or 2. Then he switched to saying only 5 years in an interview this year I believe, and now he just said “just a few years”. He also had another cool quote at the end: “When we look back at this time I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity” Demis has been notoriously conservative, so when he says this, he must be pretty confident it’s coming soon.

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