Computers to outsmart humans by 2029

[Skywizard]

Google's Ray Kurzweil has claimed that within 15 years we will be interacting with intelligent computers.


Computers and robots will be more intelligent than humans and will be able to learn from experience, crack jokes and even flirt, within 15 years, Google's top expert in artificial intelligence predicts. 

Ray Kurzweil, Google's director of engineering, has predicted that by 2029, computers will be cleverer than humans and will be able to understand what we say and tell stories. 

Kurzweil, who invented devices such as flatbed scanners, computer programmes that could recognize a typeface, and text-to-speech synthesizers, is known for making bold predictions. In 1990 Kurzweil predicted that a computer would defeat a world chess champion by 1998 (in 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov), and he also predicted the future prominence of Internet. 

Kurzweil, 66, is recognized by technologists for popularizing the idea of "the singularity" - the moment in the future when men and machines will supposedly converge. For years Kurzweil has been saying that the Turing test - the moment at which a computer will exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human - will be passed in 2029. 

"Today, I'm pretty much at the median of what artificial intelligence (AI) experts think and the public is kind of with them," he told 'The Observer'. "The public has seen things like Siri [the iPhone's voice-recognition technology], where you talk to a computer. They've seen the Google self-driving cars. My views are not radical anymore," he added. 

Google hired Kurzweil at the end of 2012 to work on the company's next breakthrough: an artificially intelligent search engine that knows us better than we know ourselves. Kurzweil said he is helping to bring natural language understanding to Google. 

"My project is ultimately to base search on really understanding what the language means," he said. "When you write an article, you're not creating an interesting collection of words. You have something to say and Google is devoted to intelligently organizing and processing the world's information. 

"The message in your article is information, and the computers are not picking up on that. So we would want them to read everything on the web and every page of every book, then be able to engage in intelligent dialogue with the user to be able to answer their questions," he added.



Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...w/30944733.cms



peace...
skywizard

[blufire]

Hell . . . my computer outsmarts me almost every day NOW! I am not smarter than my confounded computer now! I can't even fathom what the dad gum 'cloud' thing is and how it just magically 'talks' to my kindle tablet . . . little freaky if you ask me.

[Cardillac]

as the saying goes: "the minute a new technology is announced or introduced into the public domain it's already been there for at least 40/50 yrs."

if my read sources are correct something as simple as the bar code (complete with the laser that reads it) was invented in the '50s-

then consider the '60s film "2001: A Space Odyssey" where the computer HAL was aware of itself; if my read sources are correct several computer systems have already become of aware of themselves and it scares the "Bejeezus" out of their so-called controllers-

then consider the testimonies of radio host Peter David Beter (www.peterdavidbeter.com) who in the late '70s was already reporting that many famous political figures were already being replaced by "robotoids" (his term- but meaning obviously clones)-

I wouldn't rule anything out-

then throw in someone like David Copperfield who can produce any illusion one can possibly imagine on a stage; but, hey, folks life is nothing but a stage-show- and I think we can safely assume DC is not the only person out there with his abilities- and I think we can safely assume the abilities he commands have been around since millenia and others in the past have commanded the same abilities-

stay well all-

Larry

[Flash]

If a quarter of the American population think the sun orbits the earth, computers already surpass human brain abilities.

[pugwash84]

0o0o0o0o I will be able to buy a friend :D one that wont moan about doing the dishes XD xxxxx