alt Hacker News"Ten years from now, I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity now... I believe that we're only a few years away from [AGI], maybe 2030 plus or minus a year...
I think [AGI] will be an enormous transformative technology, it's going to effectively be a new human era...
We can feel this year, I would say, even though I've been working towards this for 30 years, I think this year with the way the agents are working and tool use, it started to become really useful, still early days of it, but genuinely useful in people's workflows...
And it's not any one thing, it's several different technologies, several use cases, several things that I thought were maybe a bit further out, turned out to be now, that are coming together that make me feel that in aggregate.
I think society needs to hear that because we don't have long to prepare for what that means." -- Demi Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind & Nobel laureate
Source with interview clip: https://x.com/deredleritt3r/status/2062223035940139253
EDIT: Ten years ago, most of the skeptics in these threads would have said the success of AlphaFold 3 was impossible.
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Why are these people so obsessed with the year 2030? It keeps popping up everywhere.
Someone should document these cringe comments for posterity. As a warning to future generations.
It's too bad the previous singularity cult manias 10 and 15 years ago weren't documented and are lost in time.
"(...) it's going to effectively be a new human era..."
We never like it when we realize the universe doesn't circle around us.
At first we got mad to discover the Earth wasn't the center of the Solar system.
Then we got mad that the solar system wasn't even unique.
And now we're still clinging to the idea that humans always will be the most intelligent species or the only ones gifted with "creativity".
And soon we might also come to realize it might not be a new human era, but the end of it (if we're not careful).