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Hassabis Predicts True AGI Is Five To Ten Years Away
“I think an AGI system would have to be able to do all of those things to really fulfill the original sort of goal of the AI field. And I think, you know, we're five to 10 years away from that.”
Demis Hassabis Rejects Yann LeCun's Stance That LLMs Are A Dead End
“No matter what camp you're in, we're gonna need Large foundation models as the key component of the final AGI systems. Of that, I'm sure. So, I don't, I'm not subscriber to someone like Jan LeCun who thinks, you know, that there's sort of some kind of dead end…”
Demis Hassabis predicts AGI is three to five years away
“I think you know, I would say probably like three to five years away.”
Demis Hassabis expects Google spinout Isomorphic Labs to cure all diseases
“One is curing all diseases one day. Which I think we're going to do with isomorphic and the work we're doing there or our spin out, our drug discovery spin out.”
Hassabis: AI automation may be 10x the Industrial Revolution
“I think we've, it's like the industrial revolution, maybe 10 X of that, but we'll have to adapt again, and I think we'll find new meaning in things, and we do a lot of things already today that are not just for economic gain.”
Hassabis: Post-human AGI will discover room-temperature superconductors and new energy sources
“I mean, that's what to me is, it would be the AGI moment is, you know, then it will discover a new superconductor, room temperature superconductor that's possible in the laws of physics, but we just haven't found that needle in the haystack. Or a new source of…”
Hassabis: AI Capable of True Scientific Invention Is Coming
“You know, that's, I think we don't have systems yet that can do that type of creativity. I think they're coming and these types of paradigms might be helpful in that things like thinking and then probably many other things.”
Hassabis: Gemini 2.5 and video algorithms will make robotics work
“I think we're in a really exciting moment now where finally with these latest versions, especially 2.5 Gemini and more things that we're going to bring in this kind of video technology and other things. I think we're going to have really exciting algorithms to…”
Demis Hassabis says AI agents require active data over passive observation
“So I think that's the next big step actually for agent based systems is to go beyond world models. Can you collect enough data where the agents are also acting in the world and making plans and achieving tasks? And I think for that you will need Ah, ah, not ju…”
Demis Hassabis predicts upcoming AI agents will achieve Move 37-style breakthroughs
“I think the agent based systems that are coming, Will be capable of move-thirty-seven type things.”
Demis Hassabis predicts deceptive AI becomes a major issue by 2028
“I wouldn't get too alarmed about them right now, but I think it shows the type of issue we're going to have to deal with. Maybe in two, three years time when these agent systems become quite powerful and quite general.”
Demis Hassabis predicts AI agents will negotiate directly with service providers
“I think that we're going to end up with probably a kind of, Economics model where agents talk to other agents and negotiate things between themselves and then give you back the results, right? And you will have the service providers with agents as well that ar…”
Demis Hassabis predicts 2025 will be the year of AI agents
“Well, again, you know, I think the hype train can potentially is ahead of where the actual science and research is, but I do believe that this year will be the year of agents. The beginnings of it, I think you'll start seeing that you know lap, maybe second ha…”
Demis Hassabis predicts a virtual cell AI model will take five years
“I think that would be like maybe five years from now. Yeah. So I have a kind of five year project and a lot of the alpha fold, the old alpha fold team are working on that.”
Demis Hassabis predicts AI will eventually discover room-temperature superconductors
“I think well I heard that we actually think there are some superconductor materials. I doubt they're room temperature ones though, but I think at some point, if it's possible with physics an AI system will one day find it.”
Next-Generation Google and Samsung Smart Glasses Will Appear By Summer 2026
“We've done some great partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster and Samsung to build these next generation glasses. And you should start seeing that you know, maybe by the summer.”
Hassabis: Almost every future drug discovered will probably use AlphaFold
“I think in future Almost every single drug that's discovered from now on will probably have used AlphaFold at some point in that process, which is, you know, amazing for us, and, you know, really, that's what we do, all the work we do for.”
Hassabis: Test-time compute and inference will require vast data center capacity
“We're going to need a lot of data centers for serving, and also for inference time compute. Giving, you know, you saw DeepThink today, T.P.P. Pro DeepThink. The more time you give it, the better it will be, and certain tasks, very high value, very difficult ta…”
Hassabis: Web will transform into an agent-first architecture within years
“I do think the web, I think in nearer term, the web is going to change quite a lot if you think about an agent first web. Like, does it really need to, you know, it doesn't necessarily need to see renders and things like we do as humans using the web, so I thi…”
Demis Hassabis predicts hands-free smart glasses will go mainstream within years
“So I think that glasses and maybe other form factors that are hands-free will come into their own in the next few years. And we, you know, we plan to be at the forefront of that.”
Hassabis: Vibe Coding Will Enable Creatives to Build Software Independently
“I think it will open up the whole productivity space to designers, creatives, artists that maybe would have had to work with teams about access to teams of programmers. Now they can probably do, you know, a lot more just on their own.”
Hassabis: Tool use during test-time reasoning will be extremely powerful
“Especially if you think about, obviously, with an AI, during its thinking process, it can also use a bunch of tools, or even other AIs in, during that thinking process to improve what the final output is. So I think it's gonna be an incredibly powerful paradig…”