Do We Have an Evolutionary End Point?

“If I were really prescient, I would have told people in 1990 that new jobs would soon become available to create and operate websites and mobile applications, doing data analytics and online merchandising. But they wouldn’t have had any idea what I was talking about.” — Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI, p. 200, Kindle Edition

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) promises many things.  In articles and books AGI is described as a state of machine intelligence in whi...