{"id":2115,"date":"2015-01-24T23:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/24\/robots-will-be-smarter-than-us-all-by-2029\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T18:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T17:25:33","slug":"robots-will-be-smarter-than-us-all-by-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/robots-will-be-smarter-than-us-all-by-2029\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots will be smarter than us all by 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-8939454 articleContent\">\n<p><strong>By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart even the most intelligent humans, according to Google\u2019s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138699 articleContent\">\n<div class=\"body \">\n<p><strong>One of the world\u2019s leading futurologists and artificial intelligence (AI) developers, 66-year-old Kurzweil has previous form in making accurate predictions about the way technology is heading.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1990 he said a computer would be capable of beating a chess champion by 1998 \u2013 a feat managed by IBM\u2019s Deep Blue, against Garry Kasparov, in 1997.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When the internet was still a tiny network used by a small collection of academics, Kurzweil anticipated it would soon make it possible to link up the whole world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, Kurzweil says than within 15 years robots will have overtaken us, having fulfilled the so-called Turing test where computers can exhibit intelligent behaviour equal to that of a human.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking in an interview with the Observer, he said that his prediction was foreshadowed by recent high-profile AI developments, and Hollywood films like Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cToday, I\u2019m pretty much at the median of what AI experts think and the public is kind of with them,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe public has seen things like Siri (Apple\u2019s voice recognition software), where you talk to a computer. They\u2019ve seen the Google self-driving cars. My views are not radical any more.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px; float: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><script><\/p>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Though credited with inventing the world\u2019s first flat-bed scanners and text-to-speech synthesisers, Kurzweil is perhaps most famous for his theory of \u201cthe singularity\u201d \u2013 a point in the future where humans and machines will apparently \u201cconverge\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His decision to work for Google came after the company acquired a host of other AI developers, from the BigDog creators Boston Dynamics to the British startup DeepMind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And the search engine giant\u2019s co-founder Larry Page was able to convince Kurzweil to take on \u201chis first actual job\u201d by promising him \u201cGoogle-scale resources\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With the company\u2019s unprecedented billions to spend, and some of humanity\u2019s greatest minds already on board, it is clearly only a matter of time before we reach that point when robots can joke, learn and yes, even flirt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><script><\/p>\n<p><\/script><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><script><\/p>\n<p><\/script><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hereandthere","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}