Matt Ortega

Machines will be capable of artificial intelligence in 2029, says American inventor, Ray Kurzweil. Or, if you are a fan of the Terminator trilogy like me, “become self-aware.” BBC reports:

“I’ve made the case that we will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029,” he said. [...]

Mr Kurzweil is one of 18 influential thinkers chosen to identify the great technological challenges facing humanity in the 21st century by the US National Academy of Engineering.

He must work for SkyNet.

“We’re already a human machine civilisation, we use our technology to expand our physical and mental horizons and this will be a further extension of that.” [...]

“We’ll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons,” he told BBC News.

The nanobots, he said, would “make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system”.

The countdown to the repressive machine-dominated world begins.

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