Excuse me.. who are you? You're saying RAY KURZWEIL hasn't been paying attention to AI developments? And you're modded insightful?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_kurzweil

"Everybody promises that AI will hit super-human intelligence at 20XX and it hasn't happened yet! It never will!" ... well guess what? It'll be the last invention anybody ever has to make. Great organizations like the Singularity Institute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Institute really shouldn't be scraping along on such poor budgets, seriously if this ever worked, even a 0.001% chance of a friendly technological singularity occuring, isn't it worth investigating?