Top scientist predicts that AI may outsmart human intelligence by 2027—decades earlier than expected

March 19, 2024217.1K views

Mathematician and futurist Ben Goertzel made the prediction while closing out a summit on AGI las week: 'we could get to human-level AGI within, let's say, the next three to eight years'Goertzel made his predictions in Panama City, Panama during his closing speech for the 2024 Beneficial AI Summit, which is partially sponsored by his firm SingularityNET

Goertzel has been investigating what he calls artificial super intelligence (ASI) ¿ which he defines as an AI so advanced that it matches all of the brain power and computing power of human civilization combined

Goertzel is perhaps most well-known for his work on Sophia the Robot, the first robot ever to be granted legal citizenship. Goertzel (right) has toured Sophia (left) as part of SingularityNET's push for a new online space for the exchange of AI algorithms