We don't understand AI because we don't understand intelligence

These claims are not ludicrous on their own. We've seen rapid advancements in technology over the past decades; we know computers are growing more powerful and more accessible by the month. Already in 2011, a supercomputer named Watson won a game of Jeopardy against two former champions, using a mixture of AI and all-important natural-language processing. The future is here and it may soon outstrip us. Kurzweil's timeline of the technological singularity is based on the law of accelerating returns, wherein the more powerful computers become, the faster they advance.