
It began during the Industrial Revolution, when mass-production kicked into high gear and initiated the largest wealth creation boom in human history. The Oxford Dictionary defines the Singularity as “A hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence and other technologies have become so advanced that humanity undergoes a dramatic and irreversible change.” But if you remove artificial intelligence from the definition and focus on “dramatic and irreversible change,” the singularity is already here. Propelled by Moore’s Law, he thinks the “singularity” will arrive in 2045 when computers are one billion times smarter than humans.

He predicted that by 2029, an Artificial Intelligence will pass a Turing test and achieve human levels of intelligence.


These are the famous words of Ray Kurzweil, who predicted a coming moment when technology would become so advanced that society would experience irreversible change.
