Ray Kurzweil predicts computers will be as smart as humans in 12 years
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12 years.
That’s how long Google’s Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil thinks it will take for computers to reach human levels of intelligence.
Singularity Is Coming
“By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence,” Kurzweil said in an interview at the SXSW Conference with Shira Lazar and Amy Kurzweil Comix.
Known as the Singularity, the event is oft discussed by scientists, futurists, technology stalwarts and others as a time when artificial intelligence will cause machines to become smarter than human beings.
The time frame is much sooner than what other stalwarts have said, including British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, as well as previous predictions from Kurzweil, who said it may occur as soon as 2045.
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, who recently acquired ARM Holdings with the intent on being one of the driving forces in the Singularity, has previously said it could happen in the next 30 years.
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They were smarter than me 10 years ago
You're kidding me? I thought humanity was dumbed down. This should take a lot less time. Don't you think?
what I think?
I don't think it's ever going to happen.
To bad computers are dumber than rocks.
Computing power doesn't make one intelligent.
We have reached the edge where we cannot make gates any smaller in silicon. So, we can now only build bigger and bigger, which has other limitations. So, the projection into the future that computers will be bigger and faster cannot rely on the past data of megaflop growth.
graphene,photonics, and 3D to name but three new avenues to explore.
I can't wait til robots can act like us.
Kurzweil is based fam