Schmidhuber: Turing Test is a bad intelligence measure — no AGI without mastery of the real world
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-23
In a reply to Elon Musk and François Chollet, Jürgen Schmidhuber restates his long-held view: today's only well-working AI lives behind the screen — summarizing documents, playing chess, proving theorems, generating images and programs — yet no AI-controlled robot can match a plumber or even a capuchin monkey, because the physical world is far more demanding.
- Passing the Turing Test is far easier than True AI in the physical world, so it's a poor measure of intelligence
- AI software research alone isn't enough; it must be combined with machines and robotics
- "No AGI without mastery of the real world"
The argument comes from Sec. 20 of his "Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning" (survey arXiv:2212.11279).
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