Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Merging Man and Machine

Here is an interesting article that I just recently read. I am a little skeptical about this, since up to now the level of intelligence of all of the computer in the world combine (in my opinion) is still equal to a cockroach. But then again, if we are going to follow Moore's Law. This idea is not too far fetched.
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Machines 'to match man by 2029'

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.”

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