Schmidhuber: AGI Must Enter the Real World
haider1 · x · 2026-07-11
Jürgen Schmidhuber argues that **excelling only behind a screen** doesn't qualify as AGI: even if it can play chess or pass the Turing test, without mastering the real world, it's just an "advanced text editor." He further notes that creating **robot hands with human-like strength and dexterity** may take many years, even decades.
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