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His books outline a series of epochs—stages reflecting the universe’s and humanity’s evolution—culminating in a future where consciousness itself could be uploaded to the cloud, granting immortality and superintelligence. Kurzweil predicts that by 2029, we will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) capable of human-like reasoning and understanding. The broad horizon extends to 2045, where he believes we will encounter the "Singularity," a point where humans and machines fuse into a new form of existence, seemingly beyond aging, death, and biological constraints.
The Six Epochs of Evolution
Kurzweil describes six epochs in his framework: