THE SINGULARITY: JUST 22 YEARS AWAY
Feb. 18th, 2008 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ITEM: Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, by which time we will be implanting nanobots in people's brains to make them more intelligent.
Source: Ray Kurzweil at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.
Cool. What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, and according to The Telegraph, we will achieve this using souped up PlayStation 3s. No, really.
God, I love the future.
FUN FACT: Way back in the late 90s, the Rev Animal wrote a serialized story for my zine Go To Hell, in which he claimed to have met the elusive Paul GiPson, who had been hopping between different universes using a souped-up Gameboy. I thought he was kidding. I may owe him an apology.
Here’s yr future,
This is dF
Source: Ray Kurzweil at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.
Cool. What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, and according to The Telegraph, we will achieve this using souped up PlayStation 3s. No, really.
God, I love the future.
FUN FACT: Way back in the late 90s, the Rev Animal wrote a serialized story for my zine Go To Hell, in which he claimed to have met the elusive Paul GiPson, who had been hopping between different universes using a souped-up Gameboy. I thought he was kidding. I may owe him an apology.
Here’s yr future,
This is dF