Demis Hassabis, the executive director of Google DeepMind, stated on Wednesday, in New Delhi, that general artificial intelligence will be developed in the next 5-8 years and will reach human capacity, reports the EFE agency.
“We are 5-8 years away from reaching an artificial intelligence that can reason similar to the human being“, said the executive director, describing the accelerated evolution of this technology, during his intervention at the summit on the impact of AI, which is taking place in India, according to EFE, quoted by Agerpres.
To reach this result, the expert proposed a new evaluation standard called “The Einstein Test”, which aims to determine if a machine has an autonomous scientific innovation capacity, beyond the imitation of accumulated data.
“The concept is to train an AI with all the human information, but interrupting the data in (the year) 1911“, he explained during his intervention at the summit that brings together hundreds of technology leaders.
The challenge launched by Hassabis is to see if the algorithm is able to invent the theory of general relativity by itself, as Albert Einstein did in 1915.
The head of Google’s AI division said that current tools act as encyclopedic experts, but still lack a real creative dimension.
“They only solve what already exists and do not generate new scientific hypotheses of this caliber“, the executive pointed out, describing the limitations of today’s massive language systems.
The roadmap to achieving this goal requires combining the planning ability of systems like AlphaGo with the processing scale of modern fundamental models.
Google DeepMind’s chief executive emphasized that models like Gemini will be an essential part of the final solution, serving as a map of how the world works on which to perform advanced learning tasks.
The transition would allow AI to stop being a very fast encyclopedia, but to become a discovery engine capable of solving mysteries that have escaped the human mind.
The India AI Impact Summit 2026, the largest AI summit to date, is designed as a platform to define the balance between extreme innovation and security for people around the world.
The summit in India’s capital is hosting more than 20 heads of state and 500 technology industry leaders, with the aim of agreeing on the rules that will govern the digital economy in the next decade.
