Looking back at the link below, it makes you feel like we are witnessing a similar size race, they go from 15,000 15(KW) in China in 1888 to 100,000,000,000 (100GW) in China in 1987.
https://www.ieee-pes.org/images/files/pdf/Chinas_Power_Industry_Milestones_IEEE_PES-20081010.pdf "China generates 5,882,943,540,000,000 W of electricity as of 2016" I find it interesting always, how we got electricity, then computers, then AI, maturing, we have come a long way and things are getting speedy now. Because I know 100% confidently how to make DALL-E very much like an AGI using a simple hack, I can agree Ray's prediction for 2029 isn't a bad date for AGI arrival. This isn't another 140 year process of electricity generation. Ray's predictions at bottom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tace3f9aea35af378-M75d0e014d1203145fa04a3ea Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
