Tech Digest daily roundup: DeepMind boss says ‘human-level’ AI just a few years away

The head of Google’s artificial intelligence division DeepMind has predicted that human-level AI may be just a few years away. The forecast from Demis Hassabis puts the date for the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) – systems that can think in similar but superior ways to humans – much earlier than previous predictions. Many have speculated that…