DeepMind Predicts AI To Manage Businesses By 2029

DeepMind CEO Mustafa Suleyman expressed belief that AI system could autonomously manufacture, market, and sell a product by 2030.

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Inflection AI and co-founder of DeepMind, believes that the next five years will be a period of dramatic change for the commercial sector.

The pioneer of artificial intelligence (AI) recently gave a talk at the World Economic Forum. During a panel discussion, he shared his conviction with the audience that he believed an AI system could create, manufacture, market, and sell a product before the year 2030.

“I’m pretty sure that within the next five years, certainly before the end of the decade, we are going to have not just those capabilities, but those capabilities widely available for very cheap, potentially even in open source.”

In other words, it would be able to manage its own business. As stated by DeepMind CEO, although many people would refer to a computer that is capable of performing such feats as artificial general intelligence (AGI), Suleyman chose not to engage in discussion over this topic.

At the same time, he described the concept of artificial general intelligence as “pretty unclear.” As an alternative, he suggests that researchers should concentrate on practical applications for artificial intelligence technologies, as reported by Business Insider.

In a previous remark, DeepMind CEO had detailed his “Turing Test,” which is an analogy for judging how human-like an artificial intelligence system is.

The Turing Test is based on the question of whether or not an AI system could make one million dollars on its own (and lawfully). In addition to this, he has elaborated several times on the importance of putting limitations on artificial intelligence systems before it is too late.

Suleyman argues in his book “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma” (published in 2023) that the next “five years or so are critical.”

DeepMind CEO has also argued for the intervention of the United States government in the artificial intelligence industry. Last year, he participated in a meeting with the United States Senate to examine future regulatory initiatives for artificial intelligence.

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, and the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, accompanied him, along with officials from Google, Amazon, and other technology companies.

Although the committee meetings did not yield any legally enforceable actions, Suleyman and other prominent figures in the technology industry voluntarily signed a pact to abstain from intentionally developing harmful artificial intelligence systems.