Superintelligence
Working knowledgeCore AI Concepts
Also called: ASI, Artificial Superintelligence
Superintelligence is a hypothetical AI that would vastly exceed human ability across every field at once, not merely match it. It is distinct from artificial general intelligence, which aims to match general human capability; superintelligence is the stage after that. Frontier lab leaders now debate its timeline in years rather than decades.
In practice
When a lab chief executive says superintelligence could arrive within a few thousand days, they are describing something categorically beyond today's most advanced models, not a bigger version of them. Read such statements as ambition rather than as a delivery date, and keep your own AI plan anchored to systems you can buy today.