India, Oct. 17 -- "We already have AGI", the definitive verdict of Blaise Aguera y Arcas, VP, Fellow, and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, where he leads the Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) team on research in artificial intelligence (AI). In an exclusive conversation with HT, Blaise marks a significant departure from the industry's fixation on artificial general intelligence (AGI) timelines, which has seen many tech and AI executives express different timelines for when they believe AGI will become a reality.

Even from his vantage point within the AI space, Blaise admits he was as surprised as anybody, that unsupervised learning produces general intelligence. Recognised as one of the inventors of federated learning, having first in...