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Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2031
Chollet: AGI Codebase Will Be Under 10,000 Lines on 1980s Compute
“I do believe that, you know, when you create a GI retrospectively, it will turn out that it's a code base that's less than 10,000 lines of code. And that if you had known about it back in the 19 eighties, you could have done a GI back then using the computer r…”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 36:09 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Musk: Digital superintelligence will arrive by 2026 for sure
“Like, I think we're quite close to digital superintelligence. It may happen this year, and if it doesn't happen this year, next year for sure. Digital superintelligence is defined as smarter than any human at anything.”
Elon Musk Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 42:04 Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2055
Musk predicts Mars will be self-sustaining within roughly 30 years
“I think we'll have enough mass transferred to Mars within like roughly 30 years to make Mars self-sustaining, such that Mars can continue to grow and prosper, even if the resupply shifts from Earth stop coming.”
Elon Musk Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 38:02 Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2076
Chollet: AI in 50 Years Will Not Use Today's LLM Stack
“I personally don't think that machine learning or AI in 50 years is still going to be built on this stack.”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 5:01 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2030
Musk: Humanoid robots will outnumber all other robots combined tenfold
“There's gonna be so many humanoid robots, and robots of all sizes and shapes, but my prediction is that there will be more humanoid robots by far than all other robots combined, by maybe an order of magnitude, like a big difference.”
Elon Musk Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 34:39 Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
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