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by gamblor956 977 days ago
I'm not sure anyone alive now will still be alive when this magical feat happens.

After all, people were saying that robots would talk like humans and be indistinguishable from sentient life before you or I were ever born.

Decades later, even with CPUs with more than 1,000,000,000,000x the processing power it's still news when a company releases a robot that can walk in a straight line without falling over, which is something that human babies can do before they're able to figure out how to control their own bowel functions.