Demis Hassabis

By about April 2035, AI systems will be able to come up with important new scientific problems or conjectures themselves, not just solve existing ones.

“I think actually in the next maybe five to ten years. I think we'll have systems that are capable of not only solving an important problem or conjecture in science but coming up with it in the first place.”

Said on

20 April 2025 · CBS 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley, first aired April 2025, after saying current AI lacks curiosity and imagination.

Source

Artificial intelligence could end disease, lead to "radical abundance," Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says · CBS News (60 Minutes)

Should come true

2035

How sure they sounded

I think ... maybe five to ten years ... I think we'll have

Categories

AI

Importance

4 of 5 · AI that originates scientific hypotheses would transform how science is done worldwide.

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