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Yoshua Bengio on ASI

Said

“My current estimate places a 95% confidence interval for the time horizon of superhuman intelligence at 5 to 20 years.”

Expected 2028–2043

Bengio explicitly reduced his earlier 20–100-year horizon after these systems' progress. He still identified missing capabilities and uncertainty.

Model / system named
ChatGPT, GPT-4
Source notes

Original essay dated June 24; answers A1 and A3a.