“Clearly agents with the capacity I've described will occur in the next few years. There won't be one day when we realize "Oh, my God." It is more about the cumulative evolution of capabilities every month, every six months and so forth. A reasonable expectation is that we will be in this new world within five years, not 10.”
Former CEO and Executive Chairman of Google
Said May 21, 2024Deadline May 21, 2029Noema Magazine interview, 'Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Maps AI's Rapid Advance,' May 21, 2024
The 'new world' Schmidt describes is the convergence of very large context windows, autonomous agents and text-to-action capability.