Schmidhuber: no, AI won't beat all fields of science by 2028 — physical world is far harder
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-23
Jürgen Schmidhuber pushes back on claims that AI will beat all fields of science by 2028. His argument: today's only well-working AI lives behind the screen — summarizing documents, playing chess, proving theorems, generating images and code. No AI-controlled robot can do what a plumber — or even a capuchin monkey — can do, because the physical world is far more demanding. Passing the Turing Test is much easier than True AI in the real world, making it a poor measure of intelligence, and AI software research alone won't suffice.
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