Schmidhuber: No AGI without mastering the real world — current AI can't match a monkey
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-08
AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber pushed back at claims (aimed at Jensen Huang and others) that AGI is here, calling them 'ridiculous.'
- No AGI without mastery of the physical world: all AI that works well today lives behind screens (summarizing, images, code, slides)
- No AI-controlled robot can do what a plumber — or even a capuchin monkey — can do; the physical world is far more demanding
- True self-improvement requires self-improving hardware, not just existing self-improving meta-learning software
A heavyweight rebuttal to the current AGI hype, pointing at the embodied-AI gap.
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