Prediction · AGI
Hans Moravec on AGI
Said
Robots combining world simulation and reasoning could gain most human abilities in the 2030–2040 period.
Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.
Expected 2030–2040
Moravec proposed generations of robots progressing from simple control to learning, simulation and reasoning. This was a staged research forecast, not a description of an existing universal robot.
- Original terminology
- universal robot
Source notes
Primary conference paper preserved by NASA, pp. 35–41; section Reasoning (2030–2040). Proceedings were published in 1994.