Schmidhuber: superhuman physical AI will come, but not within 2 years
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-23
AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber argues much of science is about learning to interact with the real world, and today's fragile AI-driven robots are bad at it. While he maintains — as he has predicted for five decades — that superhuman physical AI will eventually arrive, it will take considerably longer than 2 years.
Related event: Schmidhuber rebuts 2028 science-AGI claim: physical AI will take far longer(6 posts)→
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