本周早些时候在斯坦福(继大约十天前他在 Google IO 上的演讲之后),诺贝尔奖得主 Demis Hassabis 爵士为 AGI 划定了一个很窄的时间窗口:
我相信我们距离那一步只有几年了,大概像 2030 年上下一年,想想真是令人震惊。”[@ 27:09]
这很有趣,因为 Demis Hassabis 爵士[我们不妨称他为 Demis Hassabis 爵士 #2],就在几个月前的 2026 年 1 月于达沃斯,说过一些颇为不同的话,预期的是一个稍慢的时间线,即 2031-2036 年:
根据 YouTube 转录在 6:26 处的内容,Alex Kantrowitz 问 Hassabis:“我们已经好几次提到 AGI 了。嗯,那让我把这个问题抛给你,因为我在年底时和 Sam Alman 聊过,我问他,你知道,你似乎在说两件事。我们还没到 AGI,但每次他谈到 GPT 模型能做什么时,似乎都符合他对 AGI 的定义。他说,呃,AGI 定义不足。而他希望所有人都能达成一致的是,我们某种程度上已经嗖地越过了 AGI,正朝着超级智能迈进。你同意这一点吗?
以下是他的回答,其中加粗的是他对 AGI 的定义,我也认同这一定义:
我确信他确实希望如此,但这是,呃不,绝对不是。我不认为 AGI 应该被变成一个营销术语或用于商业利益。我认为它一直都有一个科学定义。 我的定义是:一个能够展现出人类所有认知能力的系统,我是说所有。
所以这意味着,你知道,人类创造力的最高水平——那些我们一直赞颂的科学家和我们钦佩的艺术家。所以这意味着,你知道,不仅仅是解一个数学方程或猜想,而是提出一个突破性的猜想,那要难得多,你知道,不是在物理学或某个化学问题上取得突破,甚至像 AlphaFold 那样,你知道,蛋白质折叠,而是真正提出一个新的物理学理论,像爱因斯坦提出广义相对论那样,对吧?一个系统能提出那个吗?因为当然我们能做到——最聪明的人类凭借他们的大脑架构在历史上已经能够做到这一点,在艺术方面也是一样,你知道,不仅仅是创作已知事物的模仿拼凑,而是真正成为毕加索或莫扎特,创造出一个我们此前从未见过的全新艺术流派,对吧?
而在我看来,今天的系统远远远远达不到这一点,不管你解决了多少,你知道,Erdos 问题——出于某种原因。你知道,我的意思是,你知道,我们做这些事情是好的,但我认为这远远远远谈不上,你知道,真正的发明,或者像拉马努金那样的人所能做到的,而你需要做到。
而且你需要一个有可能在所有这些领域都做到这一点的系统。在此基础上,我还要加上物理智能,因为当然,你知道,我们能够从事体育运动,并以惊人的水平控制自己的身体,比如今天在达沃斯走动的那些精英运动员。而 再举一个例子,我们在机器人技术方面仍然远远落后于此。
所以我认为,一个 AGI 系统必须能够完成所有这些事情,才能真正实现 AI 领域最初的那种目标。而且我认为,你知道,我们距离那一点还有 5 到 10 年。
我百分之百赞同更保守的 Demis Hassabis 爵士,也就是第 2 位。
我们不会在这个十年内看到 AGI,我们甚至差得远,原因正是他所阐述的那些。
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Aat Stanford earlier this week (following up his Google IO talk of about ten days ago), Sir Demis Hassabis, Nobel Laureate put a tight window around AGI:
I believe that we’re only a few years away from that, maybe like 2030 plus or minus a year, which is astounding to think, really.” [@ 27:09]
Which is funny, because Sir Demis Hassabis [let’s call him Sir Demis Hassabis #2] , just a few months earlier in January 2026 at Davos, had something rather different to say, anticipating a somewhat slower timeline of 2031-2036:
Per the YouTube transcription at 6:26, Alex Kantrowitz asks Hassabis, “We’ve brought up AGI a couple times. Um so let me let me put this to you because I was speaking with Sam Alman towards the end of the year and I asked him l was like you know you seem to be saying two things. We’re not at AGI yet, but every time he talks about what GPT models can do, it seems like it fits his definition. And he said uh a that AGI is underdefined. And what he wishes everybody could agree to was that we’ve sort of whooshed by AGI and we move towards super intelligence. Do you agree with that?
Here is reply, boldfacing his definition of AGI which I share:
I’m sure he does wish that, but it’s um No, absolutely not. I don’t think AGI should be sort of turned into a marketing term or for commercial gain. I think there is always been a scientific definition of that. My definition of that is a system that an exhibit all the cognitive capabilities humans can and I mean all.
So that means you know the kind of highest levels of human creativity that we always celebrate the scientists and the artists that we admire. So it means you know not just solving a maths equation or a conjecture but coming up with a breakthrough conjecture that’s much harder you know not solving something in physics or some bit of chemistry problem even like alpha fold you know protein folding but actually coming up with a new theory of physics something like like Einstein did with general relativity right can a system come up with that because of course we can do that the smartest uh humans with their brain architectures have been able to do that in history and the same on the art side you know not just create a pastiche of what’s known but actually be Picasso or Mozart and create a completely new genre of art that we had never seen before right
Aand today’s systems in my opinion are nowhere near nowhere near that doesn’t matter how many you know Erdos problems you solve which for some reason. Uou know I mean you know that it’s good that we’re doing those things but | think it’s far far from what you know a true invention or someone like a ramen would have been able to do and you need to.
And you need to have a system that can potentially do that across all these domains. And then on top of that, I’d add in physical intelligence because of course, you know, we can play sports and control our bodies and to amazing levels, the elite sports people that are walking around, you know. here today in Davos. And we’re still way off of that on robotics as another example.
So l think an AGI system would have to be able to do all of those thingsto really fulfill the the the original sort of goal of of the Al field. And I think, you know, we’re 5 to 10 years away from that.
I am 100% with the more conservative Sir Demis Hassabis #2.
We won’t see AGI this decade, and we not even close, exactly for the reasons that he laid out.
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