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KURZWEIL: Human-Level AI Is Coming By 2029
• http://www.businessinsider.com-Kevin LoriaWhile technological change itself is neutral, neither good nor bad, AI's effects on society will be so powerful that they've been described in both utopian and apocalyptic terms.
And some futurists think those changes are just on the horizon.
That includes Ray Kurzweil — author of five books on AI, including the recent best seller "How to Create a Mind," and founder of the futurist organization the Singularity University. He is currently working with Google to build more machine intelligence into their products.
AI: Coming Soon
In an article he wrote for Time Magazine, Kurzweil says that even though most of the people in the field think we're still several decades away from creating a human level intelligence, he puts the date at 2029 — less than 15 years away.
Kurzweil argues we are already a human-machine civilization. We already use lower level AI technology to diagnose disease, provide education, and develop new technologies.
"A kid in Africa with a smartphone has more intelligent access to knowledge than the President of the United States had 20 years ago," he writes.
Continued development of AI technology could better provide information and solutions to each individual person on the planet — it could potentially be the thing that designs cancer cures and medications that stop cognitive decline.