Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

Ep 90: AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber on the State of AI Today

July 9, 2026·50 min·6-min readinterviewtechnology
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Jürgen Schmidhuber believes that while AI behind screens is advancing rapidly, true artificial general intelligence (AGI) requires physical embodiment in the real world, where robot hardware lags far behind human bodies. He is optimistic about the long-term trajectory of AI but deeply pes

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Jürgen Schmidhuber

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