"Schmidhuber has discussed approximately 2029 as a possible milestone for inexpensive human-brain-power AI and a speculative Omega point around 2040."
Schmidhuber's 2025 revision of his technical history discusses an anticipated milestone around 2029 and his broader Omega vision around 2040. He explicitly treats this long-range scenario as speculative, making it useful evidence of the continued association between AI development and sweeping predictions about humanity's technological future.
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