{"id":250090,"date":"2026-05-20T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/google-ai-chief-says-agi-is-on-the-horizon-raising-hopes-and-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:20:20","slug":"google-ai-chief-says-agi-is-on-the-horizon-raising-hopes-and-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/google-ai-chief-says-agi-is-on-the-horizon-raising-hopes-and-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AI chief says AGI is on the horizon, raising hopes and concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unb.com.bd\/category\/Tech\/google-ai-chief-says-agi-is-on-the-horizon-raising-hopes-and-concerns\/186365\">Google AI chief says AGI is on the horizon, raising hopes and concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unb.com.bd\/category\/Tech\/google-ai-chief-says-agi-is-on-the-horizon-raising-hopes-and-concerns\/186365\">https:\/\/unb.com.bd\/category\/Tech\/google-ai-chief-says-agi-is-on-the-horizon-raising-hopes-and-concerns\/186365<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 04:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"unb.com.bd\">unb.com.bd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, says artificial general intelligence (AGI) is now \u201con the horizon,\u201d suggesting that a major breakthrough in AI could be closer than many expected.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Google I\/O, Hassabis said AGI could one day help solve all diseases and that humanity may be approaching the \u201cfoothills of singularity,\u201d a theoretical point when AI surpasses human intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>AGI refers to a form of AI capable of matching or exceeding human abilities across nearly all cognitive tasks, unlike today\u2019s systems, which are designed for specific jobs such as generating text, analysing images or making recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Hassabis did not give a specific timeline during his keynote. However, he has previously estimated that AGI could arrive within five to eight years.<\/p>\n<p>The comments drew attention because they came from one of the world\u2019s most respected AI researchers. Hassabis, who has received global recognition for his work in artificial intelligence, is considered a leading voice in the field.<\/p>\n<p>During the conference, Google also demonstrated AI tools designed to handle online shopping, manage tasks and browse the internet like a personal assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Some experts welcomed the optimism but warned that the definition of AGI remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Ansh Mehra, founder of The Cutting Edge Group and an AI educator, said many researchers still disagree on what AGI actually means.<\/p>\n<p>He told NDTV that AGI may still be three to four years away, but added that even the concept of intelligence itself is still debated.<\/p>\n<p>Other experts believe AGI may take much longer.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Srinivas Padmanabhuni, chief technology officer of AiEnsured, said common-sense reasoning and modeling consciousness remain major scientific challenges. He estimated that AGI could still be 10 to 15 years away.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics argue that AGI has become a powerful marketing concept in Silicon Valley, where ambitious promises often outpace practical&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unb.com.bd\/category\/Tech\/google-ai-chief-says-agi-is-on-the-horizon-raising-hopes-and-concerns\/186365\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google AI chief says AGI is on the horizon, raising hopes and concerns https:\/\/unb.com.bd\/category\/Tech\/google-ai-chief-says-agi-is-on-the-horizon-raising-hopes-and-concerns\/186365 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/unb.com.bd\/watermark\/category\/Tech\/english\/186365\/google-ai-chief-says-agi-is-on-the-horizon-raising-hopes-and-concerns","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22,20],"class_list":["post-250090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250092,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250090\/revisions\/250092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}