# If there is an intelligence explosion in the next few decades due to AI, what real world bottlenecks will still exist

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**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-an-intelligence-explosion-in-the-next-few-decades-due-to-ai-what-real-world-bottlenecks-will-still-exist/1020104/2 "2025-06-25T07:20:41Z")

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Can you please clarify how this question is materially different from the last question you asked on this topic?

> [@Does intelligence stop mattering for problem solving beyond a certain point](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-intelligence-stop-mattering-for-problem-solving-beyond-a-certain-point/1018780):
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> So with advances in AI, people like Kurzweil have always predicted AI would reach AGI status around 2029. He predicted AI thousands of times smarter than humans by around 2045, and endless trillions of times smarter than humans by 2099. However, the universe we live in is finite in its complexity. Eventually you reach a point where intelligence is enough to solve pretty much everything, and then other bottlenecks that can’t be overcome like the laws of physics come into play. Take horsepower a…

You’re still assuming endless progress on some sort of linear scale of intelligence, which is enormously doubtful on many fronts. Are we to simply handwave that assumption and look at what can be logistically achieved regardless of so-called infinite intelligence?

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