Eras Quote by Vernor Vinge

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

— Vernor Vinge

“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Is such progress…

— James Barrat

“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.… Can events be…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human…

— Ray Kurzweil

Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a…

— Ray Kurzweil

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as…

— John L. Casti

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

— Arthur C. Clarke

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have…

— Ray Kurzweil

The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will…

— Judy Woodruff

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

— Martin Rees

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means…

— John Naisbitt

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

— Michael Shermer