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Exactly. There’s one guy - Ray Kurzweil - who predicted in late 90s that AGI will happen in 2029 (yes, the exact year, based on his extrapolations of Moore’s law). Everybody laughed at him, but it’s increasingly likely he’ll be right on the money with that prediction.


Remember when he said nanobots would cure all our diseases by a few years ago?


I don’t actually, did he specify a year? He made a lot of predictions, many are wrong, but the AGI one is pretty amazing.


2020s was my understanding; he made this prediction around the time that he made the AGI one. I think he has recently pushed it back to 2030s because it seems unlikely to come true.


  > many are wrong, but the AGI one is pretty amazing.
If you make enough predictions eventually one will be right

Or at least one will be exciting




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