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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 Ray Kurzweil.

The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.

"It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil explained.

"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.

Man versus machine

"I've made the case that we will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029," he said.

We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains... to make us smarter

Ray Kurzweil

"We're already a human machine civilisation; we use our technology to expand our physical and mental horizons and this will be a further extension of that."

Humans and machines would eventually merge, by means of devices embedded in people's bodies to keep them healthy and improve their intelligence, predicted Mr Kurzweil.

"We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons," he told BBC News.

CHALLENGES FACING HUMANITY

Make solar energy affordable

Provide energy from fusion

Develop carbon sequestration

Manage the nitrogen cycle

Provide access to clean water

Reverse engineer the brain

Prevent nuclear terror

Secure cyberspace

Enhance virtual reality

Improve urban infrastructure

Advance health informatics

Engineer better medicines

Advance personalised learning

Explore natural frontiers

The nanobots, he said, would "make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system".

Mr Kurzweil is one of 18 influential thinkers chosen to identify the great technological challenges facing humanity in the 21st century by the US National Academy of Engineering.

The experts include Google founder Larry Page and genome pioneer Dr Craig Venter.

The 14 challenges were announced at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, which concludes on Monday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7248875.stm



Crikey Moses!!! I robot:D

but fortunately Chez ... so far only us humans are capable of expressing love and compassion ...

Jj:-4

jones jones;777988 wrote: but fortunately Chez ... so far only us humans are capable of expressing love and compassion ...

Jj:-4


yes JJ thats very true..........but..........I heard cyber sex is quite the rage right now:D:rolleyes::p

Chezzie;778099 wrote: yes JJ thats very true..........but..........I heard cyber sex is quite the rage right now:D:rolleyes::p


oooooooooooh! bad bad chezzie!!!!:-3

Hmmmn, I wouldn't be so sure about this one. Intelligence and conciousness are not really understood at all in a scientific sense so any predictions based on current understandings should be taken with a pinch of salt. We will certainly have much faster and capable computers in 20 years time, and smaller, and machines will certainly "seem" to be more intelligent, but unless something happens to make a new generation of machines "concious" (and it will definitely happen by accident or some kind of software evolution rather than design) then computers will remain about as intelligent as a sewing machine, which despite all their sophistication is where they are right now.

Galbally;778376 wrote: Hmmmn, I wouldn't be so sure about this one. Intelligence and conciousness are not really understood at all in a scientific sense so any predictions based on current understandings should be taken with a pinch of salt. We will certainly have much faster and capable computers in 20 years time, and smaller, and machines will certainly "seem" to be more intelligent, but unless something happens to make a new generation of machines "concious" (and it will definitely happen by accident or some kind of software evolution rather than design) then computers will remain about as intelligent as a sewing machine, which despite all their sophistication is where they are right now.


guess that ranks my intelligence on par with a darning needle then :wah::wah::wah:

:wah:

Who would want a nanobot in their brain? I don't think so...

So true Dr. G the fastest idiots ever created.

[QUOTE]then computers will remain about as intelligent as a sewing machine, which despite all their sophistication is where they are right now.[/QUOTE]

I read once about people having some kind of chips inserted under their skin that acted like remote controls. Opened garage doors, turned tv's on etc..

Infact im sure it was a tv programme. Dont know whether that ever happened.

It was to save on carrying keys round etc...

Chezzie;778388 wrote: guess that ranks my intelligence on par with a darning needle then :wah::wah::wah:


No I would have said at least paper scissors chez! :wah:

Galbally;778540 wrote: No I would have said at least paper scissors chez! :wah:


yay I love paper scissors:wah::wah::wah: