“By 2029 the software for intelligence will have been largely mastered.”
Inventor, futurist and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Said Sep 1, 1999Deadline Dec 31, 2029Ray Kurzweil, 'The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine', Scientific American, September 1, 1999
Deadline is end of 2029; Kurzweil has repeatedly reaffirmed the 2029 human-level-AI date, most recently in The Singularity Is Nearer (2024).