# Quote — Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near

> Until such time that computers at least match human intelligence in every dimension, it will always remain possible for skeptics to say the glass is half empty. Every new achievement of AI can be dismissed by pointing out other goals that have not yet been accomplished. Indeed, this is the frustration of the AI practitioner: once an AI goal is achieved, it is no longer considered as falling within the realm of AI and become instead just a useful general technique. AI is thus often regarded as the set of problems that have not yet been solved.

- Author: [Ray Kurzweil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil.md)
- Book: [The Singularity Is Near](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil/the-singularity-is-near.md)
- Page: 441
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#The_Singularity_Is_Near:_When_Humans_Transcend_Biology_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil/the-singularity-is-near/until-such-time

## More from this book

> The Singularity will allow us to transcend these limitations of our biological bodies and brains. We will gain power over our fates. Our mortality will be in our own hands. We will be able to live as long as we want (a subtly different statement from saying we will live forever). We will fully understand human thinking and will vastly extend and expand its reach. By the end of this century, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence.

p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil/the-singularity-is-near/the-singularity-will.md)

> The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating.

p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil/the-singularity-is-near/the-power-of-ideas.md)

> I emphasize the exponential-versus-linear perspective because it's the most important failure that prognosticators make in considering future trends. Most technology forecasts and forecasters ignore altogether this historical exponential view of technological progress. Indeed, almost everyone I meet has a linear view of the future. That's why people tend to overestimate what can be achieved in the short term (because we tend to leave out unnecessary details) but underestimate what can be achieved in the long term (because exponential growth is ignored).

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil/the-singularity-is-near/i-emphasize-the.md)