Shane LeggCo-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind; has held a 2028 median AGI forecast since 2011.
I give it a log-normal distribution with a mean of 2028 and a mode of 2025, under the assumption that nothing crazy happens like a nuclear war.
Q&A with Shane Legg on risks from AI (LessWrong) · Dec 31, 2011 · source · archived snapshot
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Normalized claim
Human-level AGI will arrive by 2028.
Confidence
medium (50%)
Deadline
due Dec 31, 2028
Resolution rule
Hit if by end of 2028 major labs and academies broadly recognise an AI system as matching humans across cognitive tasks. Miss otherwise.
Crowd vote
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Your call
Locked at the deadline. No odds, no money — just your record.
More from Shane Legg
I think there's a 50% chance that we have AGI by 2028. Now, it's just a 50% chance.
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