Artificial Life by 2029?
Via the BBC
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
I’ll make my own prediction here: in 20 years time, people will still be predicting that human-level AI is only 20 years away. 2001: A Space Odyssey was made in 1968, predicting that as well as colonisation of space and Pam Am still being in business, we’d have human AI by 2001. Blade Runner was made in 1984, predicting that not only would we have colonisation of space and Pan Am still in business, that we’d have human AI by 2019.
That’s not to say that it hasn’t advanced, but the last thing I heard is that we’d reached the intelligence of an ant, who let’s face it, didn’t paint the Sistine Chapel, invent the internal combustion engine or write The Lexicon of Love.
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So true. I believe that we will have some really awesome software by 2029, software that will give a good appearance of intelligence in certain tightly-defined domains. But we’ve been assuming for a long time that, once the “coolness” of the software hits a certain level, we will have Intelligence, even though we can’t even clearly define what intelligence is…