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Prediction · AGI

Ray Kurzweil on AGI

Said

By 2029, the software needed for intelligence would be largely mastered.

Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.

Expected by 2029

The article forecast machines expressing a full range of human intellectual and physical skills within several decades. Its separate 2019 date referred to computing power, not completed intelligent software.

Original terminology
intelligence of machines
Source notes

Author's archive explicitly identifies original publication September 1, 1999 and a February 2001 republication.