February 10th.Google's DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gave high praise to Chinese AI firm Deepseek on Sunday.
Hassabis said.Deepseek's AI model is "I think its probably the best work I've seen come out of China."He emphasized, however, that the Deepseek model was not a significant change from a technical standpoint. He emphasized, however, that while Deepseek's model demonstrated excellent engineering capabilities and had implications at the geopolitical level, it was not a significant change from a technical perspective. Noting that Deepseek's modeling has not led to new scientific advances, heInstead, it uses known AI technology, and the hype may be "a little overblown.".
Hassabis also claimed that Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model, which was released to the public last week, is more efficient than Deepseek's model.
In the field of artificial intelligence, there has been a lot of discussion about generalized artificial intelligence (AGIThere is an ongoing debate about when AGI will arrive, which is often referred to as an AI system that is smarter than a human. Hassabis says the AI industry is moving toward AGI, which he describes as "a system that has all the cognitive capabilities of a human being". He believes thatAGI could be here in the next 5 years or so.This would be a "remarkable achievement". He called on society to prepare for the arrival of AGI, both to take full advantage of its benefits and to deal with its risks.
1AI notes that Hassabis' views echo other voices in the industry. This year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also said he believes humans have mastered building AGI in the traditional sense.
