Schmidhuber slams Chamath's 'AGI has arrived': no AGI without mastering the physical world
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-08
Responding to Chamath's claim that "AGI has arrived," Jürgen Schmidhuber calls it ridiculous: no AGI without mastery of the real world.
- He argues true self-improvement requires self-improving hardware, not just the existing self-improving meta-learning software
- Quoting Sec. 20 of his [DLH] paper: today's effective AI lives in the virtual world behind the screen (summaries, images, code, slides); no AI robot can match a plumber or even a capuchin monkey, as the physical world is far more demanding
- Hence the Turing Test is a poor measure of intelligence — passing it is much easier than True AI in the physical world
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