“We are closer than before, yet many decades away from an AI that matches human intelligence. If you stick with the original definition — aligned with what people genuinely imagine AGI to be — we remain very, very far away. [AGI defined as AI that can do any intellectual task a human can, such as learning to drive a truck through a forest or writing a PhD thesis.]”
Founder of DeepLearning.AI, executive chairman of Landing AI, founding lead of Google Brain
Said Feb 27, 2026Deadline Dec 31, 2046Fast Company, 'Andrew Ng says AGI is decades away—and the real AI bubble risk is in the training layer,' 27 February 2026
Operationalized as no AGI (AI able to perform any intellectual task a human can) by the end of 2046, the earliest reading of 'many decades away'; in the same interview Ng metaphorically put progress at 2% over the past year with 'another 49 years to go.'