AGIRecord · kurzweil-1990
Ray Kurzweil
Inventor and author
Why they matterInfluential futurist and inventor; author of *The Age of Intelligent Machines*
- Status
- Closed
- Prediction made
- 1990
- Predicted arrival
- 1998
- Interval
- 8 yrs
“A computer will defeat the world chess champion by 1998.”
Context
Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997, so this specific claim landed.
Why it is considered incorrect
The chess claim was correct; Kurzweil packaged it with 1990s claims — speech-to-text replacing keyboards, real-time phone translation — that did not arrive on schedule.
Source
The Age of Intelligent Machines — MIT Press