Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent said engineer Ray Kurzweil.
He said machines and humans would eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.
“It’s really part of our civilisation,” Mr Kurzweil said.
“But that’s not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us.”
Machines were already doing hundreds of things humans used to do, at human levels of intelligence or better, in many different areas, he said.
Ha! These scientists need to go watch the “Terminator” movies again (and watch the news series). Do they think that the machines won’t start thinking for themselves and making us do things against our will. They’ll take over I’m sure. Hmmm…I see a book idea here.
posted February 17, 2008 at 11:07 am
Yawn. On the other hand, if our political/intellectual discourse continues to sink as rapidly as it has been, then perhaps the article is right!
posted February 17, 2008 at 12:01 pm
As long as machines need a power supply there is little to worry about. One merely turns it off if it gets too uppity.
posted February 17, 2008 at 1:47 pm
How does one turn off nanobots running around in one’s body?
You guys are going to rue the day that you dismissed these warnings so lightly.