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Prediction · AGI

Ray Kurzweil on AGI

Said

Established, broadly accepted success on a full Turing test would arrive sometime between 2020 and 2070.

Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.

Expected 2020–2070

Kurzweil distinguished narrow successes and disputed demonstrations from broadly accepted unrestricted intelligent conversation. He explicitly cautioned that his estimate might be inaccurate.

Original terminology
full Turing test
Source notes

Primary book text and final timeline both specify 2020–2070; later retellings sometimes compress this interval.