The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine

What is My Prompt? In “The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine” (2009) futurist Ray Kurzweil argues, using predictions from current trends (lines 87-90), that the evolution of artificial intelligence is imminent. Kurzweil bases his predictions on observable patterns: “the evolution of biological life and the evolution of technology have both followed the same pattern: they take a long time to get going, but advances build on one another and progress erupts at an increasingly furious pace. We are entering that explosive part of the technological evolution curve right now” (lines 36-39). In response, Kurzweil has created a concept called “law of accelerating returns” (line 82) to prove how/why artificial intelligence will “exponentially” evolve. In other texts, Kurzweil, refers to this AI awaking as “the singularity” and shares how/why human life might be enriched by this AI evolution. For this argument essay, you will join the conversation, by either agreeing/disagreeing with Kurzweil