American engineer Ray Kurzweil claims that machines will possess intellects that will "match man by 2029".
I have my doubts about this because this prediction has a) been made many times before with the same twenty-years-hence time frame, b) involves a great many hidden assumptions about the nature of reason that are not tenable, and c) if such machine intellect did arise it would almost certainly be less silicon sage and more aggravating automaton, as per Douglas Adams's spot-on prediction:
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