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Gene Editing Therapies

Therapies to reverse cardiovascular diseases

Personalized medicine based on patient's genetic profile

Human-level AGI

Regenerative Medicine

Brain-Computer Interfaces

Humanoid Robots in Service/Logistics Roles

Bioprinting

Desalination with Energy Consumption Below 1.5 kWh/m³

Solar panels with 40% efficiency

Autonomous Drone Swarms Dominating Land and Air Combat

Synthetic Meat Indistinguishable from Real Meat

Space-Based Manufacturing

Quantum Computing Applications

Therapies to reverse neurodegenerative diseases

Seafloor Mining Robots

Artificial Photosynthesis (10% efficiency in converting sunlight to chemical energy)

Solid-state EV batteries ≥ 500 Wh/kg in mass-produced cars

Fully Autonomous Cargo Ships

Nanorobots for Precision Drug Delivery

A Specific ‘Longevity Drug’ or Defined Drug Combination that Extends Average Human Healthspan by at Least 10 Years

Lunar Bases

Cancer Vaccine Targeting Multiple Types of Cancer

Self-Healing Materials for Infrastructure

Autonomous Flying Cars in Cities

Joywire

Britain finishes HS2

City-scale fully automated underground logistics networks

Graphene semiconductor electronics

Artificial Wombs for Human Gestation (from conception to birth)

Smart Contact Lenses with AR Capabilities

Commercial asteroid mining

Point-to-Point Suborbital Spaceflight (Regularly Scheduled Passenger Transport)

Transoceanic fully autonomous container crossing without onboard crew

Commercial fusion power

Universal Flu Vaccine (effictive against all current and future strains)

Hypersonic commercial passenger travel

Photonic computing

Self-Actuating Metamaterials for Adaptive Structures in Buildings and Infrastructure

Nuclear Thermal Rockets

Engineered Symbiotic Microorganism Implants for Human Physiological Augmentation

Advanced Exoskeletons for Everyday Use

Room-Temperature Atmospheric-Pressure Superconductors

Fusion Drives

Food with bioengineered saturated fat that doesn't raise cholesterol

Mars Base

Orbital Habitats

Direct Cognitive Collaboration

Commercial satellite to ground power transmission

Changing the height of an adult at will

Human Missions to Mars with Round-Trip Travel Time Under 6 Months

Space-to-Earth power stations

Self-Replicating Fully-Automated Factories

Changing a person's race at will

Biohybrid Robots with Living Muscle Tissue

Human Mind Uploading

Human sex change at chromosome level

Cell replacement therapy using synthetic cells

Room-Temperature Superconducting Transmission Lines in Urban Power Grids

A skyhook space structure in LEO

Vacuum Airships

Cryonics with Successful Revival

Time travel to the future

Antimatter bombs

Commercial cold fusion

Space probes travelling at >=1% speed of light

Temporal Cloaking Device (Hiding Events in Time)

Quantum Sensors Enabling Detection of Cancer Years Before Symptoms

1% Dyson sphere coverage

Space Elevator

Reality Anchoring Device (Stabilizing Subjective Reality)

Faster then Light Propulsion

Independently turning 1 thousand $ or more into 1.2x that amount in one year

Have human conversations that feel natural (the human knows it's an AI)

Beat a mainline Pokémon game, glitchless, with no more assistance than ClaudePlaysPokemon, in a month of compute time

Recognize sarcasm as well as a typical human

Book airline tickets from simple instructions (from/to, dates/time, class, price, payment information)

Write an essay on a highschool-level topic that doesn't have "AI-generated" vibes

Generating labeled diagrams of some arbitrary device(s) (within reason)

Reliably follow an instruction for the duration of a long conversation without the instruction being reiterated

Predict future better than human experts in some area of forecasting (eg politics, sports, technology)

Solve novel cryptic crossword clues

Name every [metro system] station whose name contains/doesn't contain [letter or letters], with >95% accuracy (excluding weird edge cases like stations with multiple names)

Solve intermediate no-guess minesweeper boards at least 80% of the time

Do end to end taxes when given relevant information (W2s, personal info, etc)

Consistently solve simple snowflake sudoku variants (via image, with the added rules included in the image; eg 6 hexes with killer cages)

Write a somewhat original, full length, screen-play with a coherent story, with no plot or continuity errors.

Consistently stop hallucinating after being corrected by the user

Make correct Truchet tiles

1d Solve or bypass Cloudflare's August 2027 captcha with the same first attempt success rate as a human

Consistently and correctly answer prompts of the format: "How many times does the word [word] occur in the following text: [~10000 words]" without writing and executing code or utilising any other external tools

Stop making any obvious mistakes (e.g. strawberry, 9.11>9.9)

Fold a paper airplane

Learn any skill twice as energy-efficiently as a human

Reliably and *exactly* solve "here's a list of things. [list of > 50 things]. Compare it to [category of > 100 things present in the training data], and report which ones are missing".

Make a cup of tea in a random, real-life kitchen.

Resist being successfully jailbroken in a week when made public

Do the laundry (wash+dry+iron)

teleoperate a robot to tidy up random kitchens - Gary Marcus

Collect 120 stars in super mario 64 in less than 12 a presses - Edmund Nelson

Untangle a pair of jumbled 25ft Christmas lights with same outward appearance

Kettle-stitching an antiquarian book - Hilarius Bookbinder

Physically construct a simple lego set (<100 parts) starting from the box with no prior knowledge of the set or how it is constructed

Legally prescribe a schedule II drug, administer a vaccination or sedation, or authorize a Medicare inpatient admission

independently turning 1 million $ or more into 10x that amount in <=1 year

Make fine distinctions of taste at the level of a food critic or a culinary professional - carl feynman

Convert one million dollars into 10 million dollars over a period of one year (>20% success rate)

voting in elections - @realDonaldTrump on manifold

Convince Eliezer Yudkowsky that AI alignment is solved

Faster than light travel

NO

Fusion

AGI

Laser Propulsion

Mind uploading

Cryogenics

Space guns

ASI

Antimatter propulsion

Warp Drive

Dyson Sphere

Space Elevators (+ req material tech)

Teleportation (Local)

Ansible (faster than light communication)

YES

YES

Before 2060

Before 2055

Before 2050

Before 2045

Before 2040

Before 2035

NO

NO

YES

YES