True Artificial Intelligence in around 20 years

Ray Kurzweil expects that Artificial Intelligence will reach the level of humans - with its broad suppleness, including emotional intelligence - by the year 2029.

clipped from www.independent.co.uk Computers 'to match human brains by 2030' Machines will rapidly overtake humans in their intellectual abilities and will soon be able to solve some of the most intractable problems of the 21st century, said Dr Kurzweil, one of 18 maverick thinkers chosen to identify the greatest technological challenges facing humanity. His address yesterday to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) portrayed a future where machine intelligence will far surpass that of the human brain as they learn how to communicate, teach and replicate among themselves. clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Tiny machines could roam the body curing diseases We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains... to make us smarter "We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons," he told BBC News. The nanobots, he said, would "make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system".

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