Artificial intelligence is moving faster than many expected. At the Financial Times’ Future of AI Summit in London, six of the field’s most respected figures said that machines now match people in several kinds of work. The group, which includes Nvidia (NVDA) chief Jensen Huang, Meta Platforms (META) AI head Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Bill Dally, shared their views while receiving the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
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Machines Reach New Levels
Jensen Huang said that AI now performs real labor and helps people across many industries. He noted that the world already has enough general intelligence to turn research into useful tools, adding that the change is not in the future but happening now.
Yann LeCun explained that the idea of “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, will not be a single moment. Instead, it will grow step by step as systems become stronger in different areas. Fei-Fei Li pointed out that machines can now identify thousands of objects or translate many languages, which few humans can do. Still, she said that human thinking will always play a key role in society.
Industry Moves and Investor Focus
Investor interest in AGI is also climbing. Mentions of AGI in company earnings calls rose 53% in the first quarter of 2025 compared to a year earlier. Many public and private AI firms have gained higher valuations based on the belief that they are close to major advances.
OpenAI (PC:OPAIQ) and Anthropic (PC:ANTPQ) have drawn billions of dollars from backers who hope to lead the next phase of AI growth. The race between the United States and China to reach full AGI continues, with each side investing heavily in computing and research.
Experts See a Gradual Path
While some investors expect AGI within two years, others think it could take decades. Yoshua Bengio said that machines will likely match human ability in almost all tasks at some point, though not yet. Geoffrey Hinton believes that in about 20 years, a debate with a machine could end with the machine always winning.
Still, Bengio advised caution, saying that no one can predict the exact timeline. He added that decisions made today should not depend on uncertain ideas about the future. For now, the experts agree that AI already works beside humans and will keep expanding its reach. The question of when it becomes “fully intelligent” may matter less than how people choose to use it.
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