[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7248875.stm

 

Tiny machines could roam the body curing diseases

Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.

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.
"It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil explained.
"But that's not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us."
Machines were already doing hundreds of things humans used to do, at human levels of intelligence or better, in many different areas, he said.
Man versus machine
"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.

 

We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains... to make us smarter



Ray Kurzweil


"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."
Humans and machines would eventually merge, by means of devices embedded in people's bodies to keep them healthy and improve their intelligence, predicted Mr Kurzweil.
"We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons," he told BBC News.

 

CHALLENGES FACING HUMANITY
Make solar energy affordable
Provide energy from fusion
Develop carbon sequestration
Manage the nitrogen cycle
Provide access to clean water
Reverse engineer the brain
Prevent nuclear terror
Secure cyberspace
Enhance virtual reality
Improve urban infrastructure
Advance health informatics
Engineer better medicines
Advance personalised learning
Explore natural frontiers


The nanobots, he said, would "make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system".
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.
The experts include Google founder Larry Page and genome pioneer Dr Craig Venter. The 14 challenges were announced at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, which concludes on Monday.

[Phlegmscope]

I see the technological singularity coming!

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/skynet.html

 

[gmku]

The only robot I'm interested in seeing developed is a sex robot. One with big pointy hard metal tits and a firm hard-rubber ass.

[ALIEN ANAL]

fuck
just make time travel possible already

once we have that sorted then we can make sweet robots to send back in time and yada yada

[floatingslowly]

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(imo)

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I'm going to have to learn how to give Voight-Kamff Tests soon

[StevOK]

I think the biggest problem I've had with most sci-fi is that they still mostly involved big robots. I've always that nano-tech is the way to go. I welcome the nanites.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

MST3K has nanites.

Thank you Such Friends for starting this thread though, I realized there are no bands named Voight-Kamff Test and so I renamed by band myspace to it.

There is however a band named Turing Test. :P

[Rob Instigator]

awesome! I cannot wait!

I love the future!

[█████████]

right.


i wonder what percentage of the budget was spent on drugs by these future illuminairies.

[Rob Instigator]

there was also a cool band named turing machine

[PAULYBEE2656]

thats bullcrap. ive seen 2001 a space oddessey and read 1984. i also have heard princes 1999!

[tesla69]

I hope the AI's are hiring.

Yeah, right.

[nicfit]

the real issue is that by 2029 the humal ai level will be soooo low....

[ZEROpumpkins]

Giving robots AI is totally retarded.
"Computer, print my assignment"
"Nah, can't be fucked"

[floatingslowly]

Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins

Giving robots AI is totally retarded.

oh, how rude.

[pbradley]

Artificially improved intelligence? What a cop out, a irl cheat code!

[Rob Instigator]

robots already have artificial intelligence.

artificial intelligence is NOT the same as consciousness, which a machine will, no matter what the sci fi writers and hollywood want yuo to believe, NEVER have.

enjoy yr paranoia!