Didn't someone come out with AI 2040?
I think as soon as they published it (ie. AI 2027) the original authors started to backpedal on timelines.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
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The same authors did publish AI 2040 yes
They started backpedalling a fair bit earlier (at the beginning of 2026) their % chance of AGI in 2027 has halved from the release of AI 2027 to day (from 40% down to 23%)
In just 12 months, AI timelines have grown 550%. At this rate of growth, timelines will grow 178500% as soon as 2030, and years with the number 1785 in them have historically involved Frenchmen flying across the English channel and people in Mesopotamia doing awesome word problems. For the security of the United States we cannot allow a balloon and/or algebra gap and we propose a new Manhattan Project to sit with our polycule in Berkeley trying to solve cubic equations and designing really cool balloons with lasers and streaming anime.
end result: well, we for sure got the streaming anime
Looked at AI 2027 tracker again and the way they grade the predictions is weird 80% accuracy is somehow both confirmed accurate and only partially accurate? huh?? why?? they do provide a grading criteria and 80% is listed as "largely accurate", yet for some reason they don't put that on the grading? It's either confirmed or partially accurate