BT Futurist: AI entities will win Nobel prizes by 2020

October 17, 2007 | Source: Computerworld

“We will probably make conscious machines sometime between 2015 and 2020,” says British Telecom futurist Ian Pearson.

“But it probably won’t be like you and I. It will be conscious and aware of itself and it will be conscious in pretty much the same way as you and I, but it will work in a very different way. It will be an alien. It will be a different way of thinking from us, but nonetheless still thinking.”