Artificial intelligence like human intelligence, experts say, "It's already here."

Artificial intelligence has equaled, if not already surpassed, human capabilities in several fields. This is what some of the world's leading figures in the field claim. The Financial Times calls them the "fathers" of this technology. They are Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, Meta's AI chief Yann LeCun, and computer scientists Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Bill Dally.

They said this at the British newspaper's Future of Ai summit, after being awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

"For the first time," Huang said, "AI is an intelligence that empowers people, tackles work, and completes tasks. We already have a level of general intelligence sufficient to transform technology into a huge number of useful applications for society in the coming years. And we're already doing it today."

The goal will be to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), capable of learning and applying what it has learned to perform any intellectual task that a human can perform.

"It won't be a one-off, because capabilities will gradually expand in different areas," said Meta's LeCun. "We're already there," Huang replied, "but it doesn't matter, because at this point it's mostly an academic issue."