Professor Gary Marcus

I would go all the way to nanotechnology, new forms of life.

The reason why I insist on going there is even though it might not happen, nobody can predict the future,

I do want to give people a sense of perspective that the intelligence scale goes a lot higher than humanity.

Like Einstein, with all due respect, it's possible to make a mind that's much, much smarter than Einstein's mind.

And that's what we're doing with AI in as short as five or ten years.

And when you see a mind like that on the same planet as you, you should expect things that are pretty miraculous.

because what the human race has already done in the year 2026 relative to humans in biblical times is already quite miraculous, right?

And we've pulled that off just using little two pound pieces of meat in our heads, right?

We've done it with very little hardware

Over the course of 2,000 years of human-level intelligence, we're about to have superhuman intelligence.

So I do want to set expectations that we're about to see fireworks in terms of the level of superhuman technology that's probably going to exist soon.

Things like nanotechnology, things like building a Dyson swarm, like a swarm of satellites harvesting the sun's entire power so Earth doesn't get any sunlight.

I do want to set expectations that those kind of crazy technological feats are likely to happen.

I don't even have a unique timeline.

I would just encourage people to go look at the consensus timeline of the experts.

So for example, if you go to metaculous.com, which is a prediction site, they will tell you roughly 2032.

If you'd asked them five or 10 years ago, they would have been like, oh, don't worry, 2050, 2060.

But now you're

they're converging to like 2032, which is in about six years.

And they don't know for sure.