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Marvin Minsky AGI predictions

Explore Marvin Minsky's AGI and superintelligence timeline: 2 sourced statements from 1961 to 1967. Compare what was said, when it was said, and any predicted arrival date.

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Marvin Minsky's statements, earliest to latest

Prediction · AGI
1961
No arrival date specified
Machines might exceed human general intelligence within a lifetime.
Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.
A possibility statement with no calendar deadline.
Source: Minsky's 1961 statement, reproduced in historical research Full statement and source notes →
Prediction · AGI
1967
No arrival date specified
Within a generation, artificial intelligence would be substantially solved and few intellectual domains would remain exclusively human.
Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.
Minsky extrapolated from early game-playing, learning and mathematical programs. He did not define the length of a generation, so no numerical arrival year is inferred.
Source: Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines (1967), p. 2 Full statement and source notes →