You will be assimilated

The Borg

Machines 'to match man by 2029'

By Helen Briggs Science reporter, BBC News, Boston

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'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.

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.

Is one of the 14 challenges cheaper beer?

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Absolutely flapdoodle.

Artificial intelligence has not moved one inch in 30 years, nor has voice recog or speech synthesis.

And I can assure you, as a child I recall reading......."by 2000, man will be redundant, having developed machines more intelligent than himself"

And how was this imense intelligence manifest to us in 2000?

"Windows, cannot find file, arse.dll, which is linked to missing export elbow.ocx" "Windows now requires you to wipe up it's shite covered arse, and mop the drool from it's chin"

oh dear, star trek reality here we come

I love the boffin 'to-do' list:

Make solar energy affordable Provide energy from fusion Empty bin in bathroom Develop carbon sequestration Manage the nitrogen cycle Provide access to clean water Clean the cooker Reverse engineer the brain Prevent nuclear terror Secure cyberspace Leave note for milkman Enhance virtual reality Improve urban infrastructure Advance health informatics Birthday card for Alf Engineer better medicines Advance personalised learning Explore natural frontiers

I wonder whether the boffins will attack a few of the smaller jobs first, just to cross a few things off, before making a start on one of the bigger ones?

My buddy Caleb and I were talking about laptops we wanted. I say a 14" Dell, Bells and whistles.

Caleb said he want an Alienware laptop. Think premium price for awe inspiring performance.

so I tell Caleb "Dude that laptop is so powerful it will become self aware, go all Skynet, and kick your ass."

Artificial intelligence or imitation of intelligence? Game AI isn't any smarter, just has a longer list of behaviors to imitate. Robots never will be as intelligently stupid as humans, even if they could be created that way, and why would you want to?. What you have to fear, if ever to possibly happen, is the day that AI machines get a "religion". The intelligence for machines to be self delusional and create their own subjective view of the world, and rationalize self-righteousness... then humans will be fucked.

More interesting in the idea that in 30-50 years average people will be able to buy/rent their own simulacrum fuckbots, a reasonably lifelike fantasy fleshlike robot/toy you can have sex with whenever. Whorebot whorehouses which you can rent the cubicle for an half hour and choose whatever variation and size of genitilia... alas, i will be too old...:(

Doctor? wrote: BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS

Absolutely flapdoodle.

Artificial intelligence has not moved one inch in 30 years, nor has voice recog or speech synthesis.

And I can assure you, as a child I recall reading......."by 2000, man will be redundant, having developed machines more intelligent than himself"

And how was this imense intelligence manifest to us in 2000?

"Windows, cannot find file, arse.dll, which is linked to missing export elbow.ocx" "Windows now requires you to wipe up it's shite covered arse, and mop the drool from it's chin"

You are incorrect on the voice recognition/speech synthesis not moving in 30 years. I can't go into detail on the subject, but let's just say I've seen and worked with hardware/software that does straight translations... not an easy task....

Scary...