Machine brains poised to surpass us

August 7, 2002 | Source: Toronto Star

Ray Kurzweil believes we are fewer than 30 years away from a time when machine intelligence will surpass our own, he said, speaking at the annual conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.Kurzweil predicted:

  • By 2010, computers as we know them will disappear and be embedded in our clothes and eventually our bodies.
  • Humans will be using computers embedded in the body to augment their own intelligence and directly exchange information.