Schmidhuber: compute got 1M times cheaper, robots and self-driving did not
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-23
Schmidhuber notes modern driving systems have huge input domains but only 2 real-valued outputs (steer and accelerate/brake), echoing Dickmanns' 1994 video-driven cars that exceeded 170 km/h on highways. His punchline: compute has become a million times cheaper over three decades, yet physical robots and self-driving cars are NOT a million times better.
Related event: Schmidhuber rebuts 2028 science-AGI claim: physical AI will take far longer(6 posts)→
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