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Machines ‘to match man by 2029′: “Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil.
The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.”
To quote Yogi Berra, the future isn’t what it used to be. And predicting 20+ years forward is, at best, good for headlines (and it worked for me, obviously!). I suspect there is a degree of inevitability to computers matching our cognition. The article is a bit confusing – on the one hand it talks about melding human and machine intelligence, but on the other, it appears to allude to standalone machine functioning of the human brain by 2029. Regardless, I’ll be convinced once I see/hear a computer laugh or cry. Of all the human traits, these seem to me to be the essence of life – the capacity for joy and sadness.