Zerodha chief technology officer Kailash Nadh said it’s unrealistic to claim that AGI can be achieved within two to five years. Speaking at Cypher 2024, India’s largest AI conference by AIM Media House, he added that the definition of AGI has been set by Western AI companies.
“It must be their definition. They must have some definition that they made up for what intelligence is, and it might be very intelligent-looking behavior or technology, but for anyone to say that it will happen in two years or five years, no way,” he remarked.
He further explained that AI is fundamentally based on physics and biology, and that people have been making such claims since the 50s and 60s.
“People were trying to build AI using analog technology. So AI research and hands-on AI modeling predates general-purpose computing, and AI was always five years away for many, many years. Today, we have amazing breakthroughs built on many …