PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER The Eschaton Is Near

"Hans Moravec predicted that robots would reach human-level intelligence by around 2040 and become capable of performing work that humans could perform."

In this 1995 WIRED interview, Moravec described successive generations of increasingly capable robots culminating in systems expected to match human abilities around 2040. Unlike Turing's conversational benchmark, Moravec's prediction explicitly emphasized physically capable machines and the progressive automation of human work.

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