New Delhi, April 19 -- Artificial intelligence is only two or three years away from replacing most human jobs.

Ben Goertzel, the father of AGI (artificial general intelligence), told Forbes that there is a fully independent human-level AI, which he believes is only 2-3 years away, "the vast majority of human jobs become obsolete".

"Prompt engineering was the most important thing two years ago-but not now," Goertzel said.

However, he noted that this won't happen overnight - once an "AGI breakthrough" occurs, there will be a transitional period before it fully rolls out and is adopted at scale, the AI pioneer and computer scientist said.

He added that it would be very similar to how AI became mainstream over the years - with Gen AI in 2...