It always seemed self-evident to me that to attain something like human intelligence, machines would have to share human human visual and auditory senses and be

It always seemed self-evident to me that to attain something like human intelligence, machines would have to share human human visual and auditory senses and be bootstrapped to a point where some great influx of knowledge could take place. We now have that body of knowledge, audio, visual, and instantaneous worldwide communications. I have to agree with Kurzweil that, surely machines that broadly exceed humans cannot be far away, though it may be their poetry will leave something to be desired.