Schmidhuber says human-level physical AI is not coming within two years

Sakana AI Chief Scientific Advisor Jürgen Schmidhuber says current AI works only behind screens and that physical AI needs new data to learn how the world works.

He argues that progress in physical AI is overestimated and that human-level physical intelligence will not arrive within two years. He also says conflicting national and corporate goals make it hard to set globally meaningful AI safety rules. The statements were posted by Sakana AI on X; no supporting data or evidence is cited in the report.