[dragonwriter]

> do you think vinge and kurzweil in the 90s and 2000s were imagining the singularity occuring exactly at the advent of LLMs?

Kurzweil explicitly tied it to AI, though the particular decisive not-yet-then-existing-AI-tech that would be the enabler was not specified, unsurprisingly.

[goatlover]

I believe he thought reverse engineering the brain in conjunction with computers powerful enough to model brains was the path to AGI and the singularity by 2045.