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Fire1 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

To infinitive purpose or result

- In the year 2045: Kurzweil, an inventor, futurist and now director of engineering at Google, predicts that by 2045, technology will have surpassed human brainpower to create a kind of superintelligence, an event known as the singularity. Other scientists have said that robots will overtake humans by 2100.

https://www.kurzweilai.net/huffington-post-mind-uploading-digital-immortality-may-be-reality-by-2045-futurists-say


Q1) Is the bold sentence "technology will...superintelligence" grammatical and correct/natural English?

Q2) What is the implied subject of the infinitive phrase "to great a kind of superintelligence"?

I think it's technology.

Q3) What is the function of the infinitive phrase "to create a kind of superintelligence"?

To-infinitive purpose or To-infinitive result?

I think it's To-infinitive result since if the subject of the infinitive phrase is technology, it's strange to read technology as having the purpose.

  

Top answer

superintelligence" grammatical and correct/natural English? Yes. fire1 Q2) What is the implied subject of the infinitive phrase "to great a kind of superintelligence"?

  • superintelligence" grammatical and correct/natural English?
  • Yes.
  • fire1 Q2) What is the implied subject of the infinitive phrase "to great a kind of superintelligence"?
  • I think it's technology.
  • Correct.
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fire1Q1) Is the bold sentence "technology will...superintelligence" grammatical and correct/natural English?

Yes.

fire1Q2) What is the implied subject of the infinitive phrase "to great a kind of superintelligence"? I think it's technology.

Correct.

fire1Q3) What is the function of the i

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