[scj]

> Their graph does show exponential growth, but the data points cut off at the year 2000. Not surprising, given that Moore's law has reached its end in the last decade.

I think the graph was originally produced for Ray Kurzweil's 1999 book "The Age of Spiritual Machines".

[rspeer]

Which predicted we'd meet a bunch of milestones of general AI by 2009.

Why is this post about a specific machine-learning task even referencing Kurzweil, anyway?