<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 7:38 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">I ran across an interesting graph and quotation<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>in Tuesday's issue of the journal Nature, one AI researcher is quoted as saying: </b><br><br><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">"<i>AI systems are doing things that seemed impossible a decade ago. Anybody that thinks that there’s a wall or a plateau or something, show it to me in the graphs, because it’s just not there</i>” </b><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">On the other hand in light of recent developments the authors of AI 2027 have delayed their estimate <span class="gmail_default">of when</span> the Singularity will occur, they had said it would occur in late 2027, but progress has been slower than <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">they </span>expected so<span class="gmail_default"> </span>now they think it will occur between mid-2028 <span class="gmail_default">and</span> mid-2030<span class="gmail_default">.</span></b><br><font color="#500050" face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font><div><b style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>John K Clark See what's on my list at </font><font size="6"><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Extropolis</a></font></font></b></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:x-small">2,<</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b> </b></font></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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