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The AI leaders bringing the AGI debate down to Earth
Some AI leaders are concerned the AGI race lacks serious evaluations, and are pushing for assessments of things like creativity in AI models.
In 2025, there’s no shortage of tech CEOs offering the bull case for how large language models (LLMs), which power chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, could attain human-level or even super-human intelligence over the near term. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has reportedly told staff that, in his opinion, the industry could be up to a decade away from developing AGI — noting there are a lot of tasks AI simply can’t do today. Lila Sciences aims to create AI models that can automate the entire scientific process, including the very first step — arriving at really good questions and hypotheses that would ultimately lead to breakthroughs.
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