The Path to Artificial General Intelligence

What is AGI, and are we close to achieving it?
In this talk, I explore the most consequential question in AI today: the path to Artificial General Intelligence. Drawing from the perspectives of leading researchers—Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Fei-Fei Li, and Richard Sutton —I examine competing definitions of AGI, the major architectural approaches being pursued, and what technical breakthroughs remain unsolved.
I discuss where we are now (remarkable capabilities alongside surprising limitations), where experts believe we're heading (timelines ranging from years to decades), and what keeps AI safety researchers up at night (emergent deception, self-preservation, and the control problem).
Finally, I share my own synthesis from my new book Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Agents Vol. 2: AI Agents.
Whether AGI arrives in five years or fifty, the choices we make now will shape what that future looks like.