punk6529: Kurzweil's 1990-2005 books are basically frontier labs' blog posts from 2023-2033
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-10
punk6529 quips that Kurzweil's books — The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990), The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), and The Singularity is Near (2005) — are basically the frontier labs' blog posts from 2023 to 2033, calling him the GOAT of AI prophecy.
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