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What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution

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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Blaise Agüera y Arcas is chief technology officer of technology and society and head of the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google, and is based in Seattle, Washington. He is the author of What Is Life? (2025) and What is Intelligence? (2025). Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar Illustration: Jacey You have full access to this article via your institution. Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 20

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Illustration: Jacey Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of artificial-intelligence models, including the next-word predictor that powers the keyboard on Android smartphones. Artificial neural networks of the sort we were training were finally solving long-standing challenges in visual perception, speech recognition, game playing and many other domai

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