Most Human Brains To Have Computer Implants
BBC:
“We’ll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains… to make us smarter”
- Ray Kurzweil
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence and emotions 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.
“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’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.
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.
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Need all the help I can get.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:43 amWhat about sex with a Robot too ?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/
the “philosophers” would have then to go on “fishing”, knowing that what they imagine isn’t perfectly logical, the nanobots will have no emotion that might intervene in reasonning… good morning Aliens
hey, may-be you’ll get a “french” understanding of the world
well, who’s going to define the “moral” ?
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Isaac Asimov, science-fiction writer, 3 laws of Robotic :
1 - A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:51 am2 - A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3 - A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
Finally we can give the liberals & Muslims a rationality chip.
Im a big fan of Mr kurzweil.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:56 amI like implants
February 18th, 2008 at 5:08 amDon’t all invest at once.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:04 amRemember Ginger?
That was the pre-release name of that two-wheeled computer
controlled scooter that would “change the way cities are built”
according to Steven Jobs.
People have amazingly better sense than our pundits.
I’ll do without thanks. I don’t ever want to be anything other than just me. Long life and shit, fuck that.
Ive seen enough combat to know when your times up, its up and that is it. Just enjoy life and be good to people in the meantime.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:01 amThe beauty of the human condition is often seen in the pains and decline of health that mankind exhibit in their old life.
Maybe Im being a crazy reactionary but, I’ve read Brave New World a few times, and this sounds like an eerily similar “fix” to mankind and society.
What are these machines really going to do to make our lives better, other than take away pain and normal body functions that make life appreciative and great.
You cant feel good all the time. After a while you will just feel docile.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:05 amI saw this movie. I didn’t like the ending.
If they really want to raise the IQ of the general population, sterilize Hollywood and the Bay area.
For women who want more intelligent offspring: I don’t do sperm banks. Direct deposit only.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:24 amCan we please use the menopause-challenged cast of ABC’s “The View”, and the entire line-up over at MSNBC, as test subjects for this?
February 18th, 2008 at 8:29 amMicrosoft can’t even get windows to work right.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:34 amI think I’ll pass.
Dbo,
bravo, your wise for such a young age
ehe Tictic, sorry but I don’t smell your pheromons
February 18th, 2008 at 8:37 amI don’t like it one bit.
casey
February 18th, 2008 at 9:44 amBullets are cheaper and only have to be installed once if done right!
February 18th, 2008 at 10:01 amAnd in the future if you don’t have a ‘Smart Chip’ in your head, will you be hired for a job?
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. ”
February 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am—Rev. 13:16-17
I think the implants will make us all feel chipper!
February 18th, 2008 at 1:15 pmJESUS IS NEAR.PREPARE.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:32 pm