Re: Machines 'to match man by 2029'

"StainlessSteelRat" <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht 
news:61qf6sF20h59oU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sentinel wrote:
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7248875.stm
>>>
>>> "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.
>>>
>>> He said machines and humans would eventually merge through devices
>>> implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.
>>>
>>> "It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil said..."
>>
>> FWIW the guy has a great website, and a newsletter that seems to be
>> on top of things. w00t! Whatever that means.
>
> He also appears to be a bit eccentric/barmy... ;-)

No argument there. :-)

> Also despite lots of articles of this type, we don't seem to be any
closer 
> to armies of roaming nanobots in our bodies, and would people honestly
be 
> very happy about having armies of nanobots roaming their bodies? Well, 
> aside from some of the nutters on this group ;-)

One man's visionary is another's complete nutter, I suppose. :-)

Yes, the nano thing is like all things human, it can be a blessing or a 
curse. Like most things human, the latter seems more likely.