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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 engineer Ray Kurzweil.
...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.
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.
From the BBC [news.bbc.co.uk]
Hmm, and just last night we were watching the episode in Series Two of Star Trek - The Next Generation, where we are introduced to the Borg for the very first time.
Is resistance futile?
Syzygy 6 of 1 - and half a dozen of the other...
Since machine intelligence would have a much easier time taking over the universe than frail human bodies, it would have been done, if it was possible.
However there is a slim chance, that we are the first species in the Universe, to create machines that will eventually wipe out biological life in the Universe, but it is mathmatically improbable.
Interstellar travel is very very costly and difficult and can only take place over enormous timescales. My personal interpretation of the absence is that the costs simply outweigh the benefits of expanding ad infinitum. (Also that there's no such thing as a Warp Drive.)
As for Kurzweil, he knows what he's talking about and has been making this prediction for ages.
Will computers become smarter than humans? Who are we kidding? They're already smarter.
Will they develop consciousness or volition? Everybody's best guess seems to be: maybe.
Will they ever master all the physical processes required in order to make more copies of themselves? IMO, this is doubtful.
1) It is always subordinate to humanity.
2) Point 1) is never to be contested.
The moment artificial intelligence, smarter and more able than homo sapiens starts procreating and gets ideas above its station, I think we can expect to become slaves really quickly.
That gets the machines out of the equation.
The cyborgs are going to be a real problem though.
The AI answers some deep questions like: "What is the difference between Religion and Spirituality?", "What would you do if you were free?", as well as many questions referring to AI and the singularity.
Their "Movie Theatre" is worth a look, too...
Syzygy