Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?

At the Google I/O keynote, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis described the current era of AI development as standing in the "foothills of the singularity." Hassabis emphasized the potential for AI to act as a "force multiplier" for human ingenuity, specifically highlighting the launch of Gemini for Science to accelerate drug discovery and address diseases. While tech executives often use bold rhetoric regarding AI's future, Hassabis clarified that his definition of the singularity refers to the arrival of full AGI, maintaining his previous prediction that there is a 50 percent chance of achieving this milestone by 2030.

(Source：The Verge)