Machines 'to match man by 2029' - BBC News
Hans-Georg Michna
Science reporter, BBC News, Boston
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence
by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
[Picture: Tiny machines could roam the body curing diseases]
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. …
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