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Every AI company is trying to build towards artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But how long will it actually take AI firms to build human-level intelligence? Let’s take a look at AGI timelines from across the industry. What do Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis say? And what other data do we have to go by? I have a brief summary.

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