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Geoffrey Hinton on ASI

Said

“I now predict 5 to 20 years but without much confidence.”

Expected 2028–2043

Hinton explicitly says he has little confidence in this estimate and could be entirely wrong. The forecast concerns digital intelligence overtaking humans; it does not declare that an existing system is AGI.

Original terminology
digital intelligence overtaking us
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