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Jul 9, 2026
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AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber on the State of AI Today
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Jürgen Schmidhuber
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Jürgen Schmidhuber is deeply bearish on the current AI investment landscape, predicting a stock market crash driven by a 'renormalization' of tech valuations due to massive, unsustainable CapEx in rapidly depreciating GPU hardware.
He argues that true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is impossible without significant advances in physical robotics, as current hardware is vastly inferior to human biology, creating a multi-decade bottleneck.
Schmidhuber believes the competitive moats of large AI companies are weak, as open-source models quickly catch up and the principles of recursive self-improvement are not defensible.
His long-term vision is for AI to evolve into 'artificial scientists' driven by curiosity, eventually leading to self-replicating robot societies that can expand beyond Earth and colonize the solar system.
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