Prediction · AGI

David Waltz on AGI

Professor of computer science and research scientist, Brandeis University / Thinking Machines Corporation

Said 1988

Human-level intelligence would require advances extending well beyond the hardware he expected around 2017.

Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.

Beyond 2017 · no upper bound

Waltz projected affordable brain-scale hardware around 2017 but warned that software, knowledge and learning could take much longer. Training alone might take twenty years, and multiple such experiments could be necessary; 2037 was not a firm forecast.

Original terminology

human-level intelligent machines