exaggeration of talking to some high-level eccentrics that find their way into academia Well, he does spend most of the article gushing over the magic insight

exaggeration of talking to some high-level eccentrics that find their way into academia Well, he does spend most of the article gushing over the magic insight of Kurzweil. It's really a "baby's first exposure to the concept of self-advancing AI" article with a movie promo thrown in at the end. (Maybe? I just skimmed.)