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Geoffrey Hinton on AGI

Said

“Now I think it might be 20 years or less.”

Expected by 2043

In a CBS interview, he shortened his general-purpose AI forecast from 20–50 years. This was not an assertion that ChatGPT had reached AGI.

Source notes

University report reproduces the quotation; original CBS broadcast dated March 25, 2023.