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For the rest of my life, AI will be coming for my job and full-self-driving cars will be just around the corner.


1960s - Herbert Simmons predicts "Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do."

1993 - Vernor Vinge predicts super-intelligent AIs 'within 30 years'.

2011 - Ray Kurzweil predicts the singularity (enabled by super-intelligent AIs) will occur by 2045, 34 years after the prediction was made.

The predicted advent of general purpose AI recedes into the future by more than 1 year per year.


Don't forget about nuclear fusion! It's the future!




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