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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Netguest" data-source="post: 1493051" data-attributes="member: 82889">Computers 'to match human brains by 2030'Boston - Computer power will match the intelligence of human beings within the  next 20 years because of the accelerating speed at which technology is  advancing, according to a leading scientific "futurologist".There will  be 32 times more technical progress during the next half century than there was  in the entire 20th century, and one of the outcomes is that artificial  intelligence could be on a par with human intellect by the 2020s, says American  computer guru Ray Kurzweil.Machines will rapidly overtake humans in  their intellectual abilities and will soon be able to solve some of the most  intractable problems of the 21st century, said Kurzweil, one of 18 maverick  thinkers chosen to identify the greatest technological challenges facing  humanity.Kurzweil is considered one of the most radical figures in the  field of technological prediction. He is a pioneer in various fields of  computing, such as optical character recognition - the technology behind CDs -  and automatic speech recognition by machine.His address this week to the  American Association for the Advancement of Science portrayed a future where  machine intelligence will far surpass that of the human brain.Although  the brain cannot match computers in terms of the straight storage and retrieval  of information, it has an unrivalled capacity of associating different strands  of information, to look ahead and plan, as well as performing the imaginative  creativity that is at the heart of human existence.But Kurzweil is one  of several computer scientists who believe that computers are well on the way to  creating a "post-human" world where a second, intelligent entity exists  alongside people. - Foreign ServiceThis article was originally published on page 5 of <a href="http://www.sundayindependent.co.za/" target="_blank">Sunday Independent</a>  on February 24, 2008</blockquote>

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