Tony Robbins is excellent at delivering speeches and engaging in discussions, but viewers were not buying his latest offer. Last month, Robbins sat down with a computer scientist who made bold predictions in the 1990s about what artificial intelligence would soon be capable of. 'Bartok just bought a Sony robot dog and had it paid for and shipped to the house.' In 1999, Ray Kurzweil said that by 2029, AI will be able to perform any intellectual task that humans can.