Jakob Nielsen called it:
“By the end of 2030 (when superintelligence is expected), AI will perform tasks that take humans approximately 100 years to complete, doing so in less than a day.”
We find out by Dec 31, 2030. 1,587 days to go
Jakob Nielsen: “By the end of 2030 (when superintelligence is expected), AI will perform tasks that take humans approximately 100 years to complete, doing so in less than a day.”
MET if A published time-horizon evaluation (METR or equivalent methodology) reports a frontier AI system autonomously completing tasks requiring at least 100 person-years of human effort at any point, before 2030-12-31 23:59 (UTC).
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Settled true if, on or before 2030-12-31, a published time-horizon evaluation (METR or equivalent) reports a frontier AI system autonomously completing tasks that would require at least 100 person-years of human effort. Otherwise false.
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Prediction 1 of Nielsen's 18 predictions for 2026, projecting the AI task-horizon curve out to 2030.
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