Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, recently predicted that artificial intelligence systems would reach human-level cognition somewhere between “the next few years” and “maybe within a decade.” 

Hassabis, who got his start in the gaming industry, co-founded Google DeepMind (formerly DeepMind Technologies), the company known for developing the AlphaGo AI system responsible for beating the world’s top human Go players.