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DeepMind's Demis Hassabis believes humanity is at the 'foothills of the singularity'

The point where AI surpasses human intelligence. Meta's Yann LeCun disagrees, saying current AI is not truly intelligent. Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals splits the difference: today's models would have looked like AGI seven years ago, but the bar has moved.

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DeepMind's Demis Hassabis believes humanity is at the 'foothills of the singularity' – the point where AI surpasses human intelligence. Meta's Yann LeCun disagrees, saying current AI is not truly intelligent. Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals splits the difference: today's models would have looked like AGI seven years ago, but the bar has moved.