We are few miracles away from AI as powerful and intelligent as humans, says former Microsoft CTO
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We are few miracles away from AI as powerful and intelligent as humans, says former Microsoft CTO

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Artificial intelligence may be advancing at breakneck speed, but we are still a few “miracles” away from achieving AI that can truly rival human intelligence, said Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, and current CEO of Intellectual Ventures. Speaking at the Microsoft@50 event in Seattle, Myhrvold outlined why humanity is “three to five miracles away” from creating AI that matches the full cognitive abilities of humans. Myhrvold, who helped shape Microsoft’s early technology roadmap after joining the company in 1986, said that while AI has made significant strides, it still lacks one critical capability: the ability to generate entirely new abstract concepts, assign meaning to them, and reason about them autonomously. While companies like OpenAI and Perplexity are touting new “agentic AI” systems that can perform complex, multi-step tasks — from booking travel to creating digital content — Myhrvold and LeCun see these as just the beginning.

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