Google DeepMind CEO says these are the skills that will set humans apart from AI

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis stated this week that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is likely only a few years away, potentially around 2030. Hassabis described AGI as an "enormous transformative technology" that will usher in a "new human era," and anticipates that in a decade, humanity will recognize the current period as the "foothills of the singularity." This prediction aligns with other AI leaders' timelines, though the exact timing of AGI remains a subject of debate within the field. For instance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously wrote that humanity is nearing the creation of "digital superintelligence." In contrast, Meta's former VP and chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, has expressed skepticism, calling the concept of general intelligence "complete BS" and doubting that current transformer-based large language models will achieve human-level intelligence. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted in 2024 that powerful AI could be achieved as early as late 2026, with Anthropic's co-founder Jack Clark and lead Marina Favaro suggesting in a piece published last month that AI systems could perform tasks in 2027 that currently take humans weeks.