Four UC San Diego professors argue AGI has arrived, citing GPT-4.5's 73% Turing test success rate and PhD-level problem-solving capabilities.

Dr. Ben Goertzel, AGI pioneer, forecasts nine major AI developments for 2026 including assistants with memory, mathematical breakthroughs, and possible AGI emergence.

Turing Award winner and former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun argues that the tech industry's singular focus on large language models (LLMs) is a flawed path that will not lead to true artificial general intelligence.

DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and AI pioneer Yann LeCun present conflicting views on AGI achievability, with LeCun arguing LLMs alone cannot reach human-level intelligence.

Elon Musk declares at Davos that AI will surpass individual human intelligence by end of 2026 and collective human intelligence by 2030-2031, while Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots advance toward public release.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis suggests that the natural shortcomings slowing down AI's development might be a good thing, allowing more time to address the societal and philosophical challenges of the technology.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes the next significant leap in AI will be the development of 'infinite, perfect memory,' allowing AI to remember every detail of a user's life.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis argues that large language models like ChatGPT are insufficient for true scientific breakthroughs and that 'world models' are the future of AI.