9. * RayKurzweil: If you go back 500 years, not much happened in a century. Now, a lot happens in six months. Technology feeds on itself and it gets faster and faster. It's going to continue, and in about 40 years it's going to be moving so fast - the pace of change is going to be so astonishingly quick - that you won't be able to follow it, unless... you enhance your own intelligence by merging with the intelligent technology we've created. * JeMand: This guy is freaking! He says computers will have ConScious'ness in just 25 years. * RayKurzweil: If you get to the 2030th you're not to be able to tell the clear difference between human and machine intelligence
45. GoogleAi "It would be like the MiNd of God." - SergeyBrin "We are scanning them to be read by an AI." - via EstherDyson "to have the world's top AI ReSearch laboratory" - via BlogoScoped "..so that we can achieve Sergey's goal of general AI by 2020" - DougLenat via SiggiBecker "We have some people at Google (who) are really trying to build ArtificialIntelligence and to do it on a large scale‚ It's not as far off as people think" - LarryPage via SiggiBecker "...the fantasy realm of ArtificialIntelligence to come closer to reality" - SergeyBrin