The Singularity Is Nearer: What Ray Kurzweil's...

Some people say the current AI bubble will soon burst and that AI is not intelligent enough to produce the singularity. Others claim we are very close, or even that we have already achieved AGI. But if AGI is destined to be created, where exactly are we in that process right now? Trying to find an answer, or at least a sharper mental model, I've been reading Ray Kurzweil's *The Singularity Is Nearer, his long-awaited follow-up to *The Singularity Is Near (2005). At its heart, the framework is so