>Now, we’re months away from AI reaching cosmologically significant powers, making everything that came before it—humanity, the cognitive revolution, writing, the telegraph, smartphones—seem insignificant by comparison.

I'd bet my life savings against $100 that we will not have strong AI with "cosmologically significant powers" that makes "everything that came before it...seem insignificant" in less than 12 months. I'd give 10:1 on two years, and 2:1 on five years.