Artificial general intelligence more than 10 years away: Baidu CEO

Co-founder, CEO and chairman of Baidu, Robin Li attends the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 22, 2024 in Paris, France. Viva Technology, the biggest tech show in Europe but also in a unique digital format, for 4 days of reconnection and relaunch thanks to innovation. The event brings together startups, CEOs, investors, tech leaders and all of the digital transformation players who are shaping the future of the Internet. 

Chesnot | Getty Images

PARIS — Robin Li, CEO of one of China’s biggest tech firms Baidu, said artificial intelligence that is smarter than humans is more than 10 years away, even as industry staple Elon Musk predicts it will emerge very soon.

Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, broadly relates to AI that is as smart or smarter than humans.

Tesla boss Musk said this year that AGI would likely be available by 2026. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in January that AGI could be developed in the “reasonably close-ish future.”

Li, whose company Baidu is one of China’s leading AI players, signals this isn’t realistic.

“AGI is still quite a few years away. Today, a lot of people talk about AGI, [and] they’re saying … it’s probably two years away, it’s probably, you know, five years away. I think [it] is more than 10 years away,” Li said during a talk on Wednesday at the VivaTech conference in Paris.

“By definition, AGI is that a computer or AI can be as smart as a human right? Or sometimes … smarter. But we would want an AI to be as smart as [a] human. And today’s most powerful models are far from that. And how do you achieve that level of intelligence? We don’t know.”

Li called for the faster pace of development of AI.

“[My] fear is that is that AI technology is not improving fast enough. Everyone’s shocked how fast the technology evolved over the past couple of years. But to me it’s still not fast enough. It’s too slow,” he said.

AI growth

FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS

Read original article here

Denial of responsibility! Chronicles Live is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials, please contact us by email – chronicleslive.com. The content will be deleted within 24 hours.

Leave a Comment