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Michio Kaku

Professor of Theoretical Physics, City College of New York

Why they matterTheoretical physicist and best-selling popular-science author

Status
Closed
Prediction made
2011
Predicted arrival
2020
Interval
9 yrs

By 2020, we will have robots as intelligent as a mouse. By 2030, as intelligent as a dog.

Context

Kaku's forecasts assumed continued embodied-AI progress.

Why it is considered incorrect

Mouse-level embodied cognition — sensorimotor generality, navigation, self-directed learning — was not achieved by 2020.

Source

Physics of the Future Doubleday