I work closely with applied semantic reasoning, deep learning and other related technologies. I am not an AI expert, or at least I try to dodge that title - I m

I work closely with applied semantic reasoning, deep learning and other related technologies. I am not an AI expert, or at least I try to dodge that title - I make stuff, and sometimes AI is among the tools I use when doing that. Ray Kurzweil is an expert though, and 2045 is his estimate of when the Singularity will happen. The Singularity involves a lot of stuff, but basically is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) applied to human cognition. This will likely happen very quickly after AGI is developed. I think current politics may have pushed that out a bit to 2050-2055, but otherwise I think Kurzweil's prediction is spot on. Kurweil's book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near A dissenting opinion: https://pando.com/2014/02/03/the-singularity-is-not-near/ https://pando.com/2014/02/03/the-singularity-is-not-near/