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mk  ·  4537 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Computers' Reasoning Skills to Equal Humans by 2029, Says Ray Kurzweil
Thanks for that.

I have to wonder why he didn't say 2030. 2029 seems oddly specific.

Personally, I think it will come sooner than that. If I had to guess, I'd say 13 years, or 2025. Natural language processing is finally hitting its stride, and when you couple that with something like IBM's Watson, you are about 2/3 the way there. The rest can probably be achieved with extremely clever imitation of human behavior.