Demis Hassabis says AGI should pass an Einstein-style invention test
jokrvivek · x · 2026-07-24
Demis Hassabis says AGI should be judged by an Einstein-style invention test
In the quoted remarks, Google DeepMind CEO and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis argues that the industry’s usual AGI definition is too weak. His bar is much higher: a system should be trained with a 1901 knowledge cutoff and asked to invent special relativity, just as Einstein did in 1905.
He adds that the human brain is the only existence proof we have for general intelligence, and that this implies AGI should mean more than being able to do useful economic work. The underlying question is whether a future system could still produce genuinely new science under severe information constraints.
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