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Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence, and When?

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Elon Musk
Elon Musk"I'd be surprised if we don't have AGI by [2029]."May 30, 2022
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Sam Altman
Sam Altman"[W]e could get to real AGI in the next decade."Dec 03, 2022
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Demis Hassabis
Demis HassabisWe may achieve "something like AGI or AGI-like in the next decade."Jul 11, 2023
Verge
Verge
Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus"[W]e will eventually reach AGI... and quite possibly before the end of this century."Jan 22, 2023
Substack
Substack
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei"The machine gods [AGI] will arrive in the next 2-3 years."Jan 22, 2025
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Shane Legg
Shane LeggThere is a "50% chance of AGI within 3 years, then 5-50% chance of extinction ONE YEAR LATER."Jan 22, 2025
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Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey HintonCurrent AI like GPT-4 "eclipses a person" in general knowledge and could soon do so in reasoning as well.May 02, 2023
BBC News
BBC News
Elon Musk
Elon MuskAI will likely be "vastly smarter than humans" in "less than five years."Jul 25, 2020
New York Times
New York Times
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton"[AI] will eventually surpass the abilities of the human brain."Dec 05, 2016
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton"Digital intelligence" could overtake us within "5 to 20 years."May 03, 2023
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Yann LeCun
Yann LeCunSociety is more likely to get "cat-level" or "dog-level" AI years before human-level AI.Dec 03, 2023
CNBC
CNBC
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei"Human-level" AI could occur in "two or three years."Aug 08, 2023
Dwarkeshpatel
Dwarkeshpatel
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Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio"Superhuman AIs" will be achieved "between a few years and a couple of decades."Jul 21, 2023
Economist
Economist
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei"I think it could come as early as 2026, though there are also ways it could take much longer."Oct 11, 2024
Darioamodei
Darioamodei
Stuart Russell
Stuart RussellA few AI CEOs have said, "There's a significant chance, like 10 or 25% chance, of human extinction."Jan 22, 2025
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Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell"We could build a human level intelligence in principle... [but] I think we're quite far away."Aug 14, 2024
Youtu
Youtu
Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark"It's pretty inevitable that [AGI] is going to happen."May 03, 2022
Discover Magazine
Discover Magazine
Elon Musk
Elon Musk"We will be far, far surpassed in every single way [by AI]."Aug 30, 2019
CNBC
CNBC
Sam Altman
Sam AltmanAI could surpass the "expert skill level" in most fields within a decade.May 23, 2023
CBS
CBS

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