India, Feb. 18 -- Artificial general intelligence (AGI) may be just five to eight years away, placing the world at what Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis described as a threshold moment for artificial intelligence (AI).

AGI implies an AI system exhibiting all the cognitive capabilities of a human being, including creativity and long-term planning.

"We are at a threshold moment, where artificial general intelligence (AGI) is on the horizon, maybe in the next five to eight years," Hassabis said at the India AI Impact Summit. "...So this summit comes at a critical moment as we start seeing more autonomous agentic AI systems, much more capable. I think we are seeing the beginnings of what those kinds of systems can do."

Hassabis said that...