Google's DeepMind says it is close to achieving 'human-level' artificial intelligence - Daily Mail

DeepMind, a British company owned by Google, may be on the verge of achieving human-level artificial intelligence (AI). !

Nando de Freitas, a research scientist at DeepMind and machine learning professor at Oxford University, has said 'the game is over' in regards to solving the hardest challenges in the race to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI). .

AGI refers to a machine or program that has the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can, and do so without training. .

DeepMind, a British company owned by Google, may be on the verge of achieving human-level artificial intelligence (file photo).

Gato uses a single neural network – computing systems with interconnected nodes that work like nerve cells in the human brain - to complete 604 tasks, according to DeepMind.

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can. .

'Gato's ability to perform multiple tasks is more like a video game console that can store 600 different games, than it's like a game you can play 600 different ways,' said The Next Web contributor Tristan Greene. 

Gato has been built to achieve a variety of hundreds of tasks, but this ability may compromise the quality of each task, according to other commentators. 

A critic called Gato's ability to have a chat with a human 'mediocre' 

Before his death, Professor Stephen Hawking told the BBC: 'The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.' 

During his lifetime, the famous British astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking (pictured) said AI 'could spell the end of the human race' 

DeepMind, which was founded in London in 2010 before being acquired by Google in 2014, is known for creating an AI program that beat a human professional Go player Lee Sedol, the world champion, in a five-game match in 2016

The firm is perhaps best known for its AlphaGo AI program that beat a human professional Go player Lee Sedol , the world champion, in a five-game match