Oh, you never ran into Hugo de Garis? iirc (it was back in 1997 when I heard him talk), he was promising human level "artilects" about 2015, and super-human in

Oh, you never ran into Hugo de Garis? iirc (it was back in 1997 when I heard him talk), he was promising human level "artilects" about 2015, and super-human intelligence by 2025. The problem that I have observed, is that the popular press always ignores the 100 experts that say, nope, not going to happen, for the one "visionary", who'll promise whatever they want to hear, as long as somebody else is paying for dinner.