“If you define that as AGI (artificial general intelligence), we’re probably going to get there in less than 20 years,” said Geoffrey Hinton, often hailed as the Godfather of AI. Hinton was talking at the FT Future of AI Summit in London where he was joined by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, AI researcher Yoshua Bengio, Stanford Professor Fei-Fei Li, Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, and NVIDIA chief scientist Bill Dally.

At the summit, the world’s AI pioneers were asked how long until the world saw machine intelligence achieved human-level intelligence. Interestingly, their answers showed not just the timeline debate, but some fundamental disagreements about what artificial intelligence can and should become.

The speakers, all of whom are the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering lau

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