Supercomputers Will Achieve One Human Brain Capacity

Time Would Become Meaningless If There Were Too Much Of It.

[in] 2029, I Think, Computers Will Match And Exceed Human Intelligence In The Ways We're Now Superior, Like Being Funny, Where We Still Have An Edge.

Within A Few Decades, Machine Intelligence Will Surpass Human Intelligence, Leading To The Singularity -- Technological Change So Rapid And Profound It Represents A Rupture In The Fabric Of Human History. The Implications Include The Merger Of Biological And Nonbiological Intelligence, Immortal Software-based Humans, And Ultra-high Levels Of Intelligence That Expand Outward In The Universe At The Speed Of Light.

Take Death For Example. A Great Deal Of Our Effort Goes Into Avoiding It. We Make Extraordinary Efforts To Delay It, And Often Consider Its Intrusion A Tragic Event. Yet We'd Find It Hard To Live Without It. Death Gives Meaning To Our Lives. It Gives Importance And Value To Time. Time Would Become Meaningless If There Were Too Much Of It.

With The Increasingly Important Role Of Intelligent Machines In All Phases Of Our Lives--military, Medical, Economic And Financial, Political--it Is Odd To Keep Reading Articles With Titles Such As Whatever Happened To Artificial Intelligence? This Is A Phenomenon That Turing Had Predicted: That Machine Intelligence Would Become So Pervasive, So Comfortable, And So Well Integrated Into Our Information-based Economy That People Would Fail Even To Notice It.