Raj Singh, founder of GoMoment, describes Ivy, a text-message hotel concierge chatbot serving some 20 million guests that automates FAQ answers and routes requests to staff. He argues current AI succeeds at narrow domain tasks, cites expert forecasts placing general intelligence around 2040, and compares AI to electricity as a general-purpose technology.
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