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Geoffrey Hinton on ASI

Said

Superintelligence may arrive in five to twenty years.

Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.

At a Nobel press conference, Hinton described a much shorter horizon than he had previously expected. The estimate concerns AI exceeding people, not a claim about an existing model.

Source notes

December 8 reporting identifies the press conference as Saturday, December 7.