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Artificial Intelligence at Human Level by 2029?

Posted by Zonk on from the i-need-me-an-implanted-robot-buddy dept.

Gerard Boyers writes "Some members of the US National Academy of Engineering have predicted that Artificial Intelligence will reach the level of humans in around 20 years. Ray Kurzweil leads the charge: '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. We're already a human machine civilization, we use our technology to expand our physical and mental horizons and this will be a further extension of that. We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons.' Mr Kurzweil is one of 18 influential thinkers, and a gentleman we've discussed previously. He was 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."

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  1. Kurzweil has no credibility by nguy · · Score: 1, Troll

    The guy talks and sells a lot, but he has contributed almost nothing to Artificial Intelligence. Have a look at his publications:

    http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_sauthors=r-kurzweil&as_subj=eng

  2. That's right, NO CHANCE. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Troll

    "No chance"

    That exactly right: No chance.

    FRAUD ALERT: Apparently something sneaky is happening, or something extremely stupid. The parent post is correct, there is no chance there will be "Artificial Intelligence" by "2029". What is known about how the brain works is less than 0.1% of what there is to know, in my opinion, maybe far less.

    Larry Page and Dr. Craig Venter, and the BBC, are embarrassing themselves by being a part of this.

    Ray Kurzweil, if you are such a "Futureologist", please post stock prices for next week. Hey, that's only a WEEK in advance, and far, far less complicated -- It's only a list of numbers.

    Perhaps 99% of what is called science in the media contains some element of fraud. Someone is wanting attention, or wanting money, and taking advantage of the fascination of the average person with science and the ignorance, too.