India, Feb. 19 -- Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be on the horizon within five to ten years, but today's AI systems remain "jagged intelligences" that are brilliant at some tasks and bafflingly poor at others, Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis, one of the foremost experts in the domain, said on Wednesday at separate events in New Delhi.

"We're at a threshold moment where AGI - artificial general intelligence - is on the horizon," Hassabis said at the keynote address on research at the India AI Impact Summit. He defined AGI as a system that can "exhibit all the cognitive capabilities humans can, including creativity, long-term planning, and things like that".

But getting there will require solving fundamental ga...