Submission + - Computers will match human intelligenc in 20 years (bbc.co.uk) 1
vigmeister writes: "Ray Kurzweil predicts computers will match humans in intelligence by 2029.
He said machines and humans would eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.
"It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil said.
"But that's not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us."
Machines were already doing hundreds of things humans used to do, at human levels of intelligence or better, in many different areas, he said.
An interesting argument I have heard about this topic is that he is in denial about his mortality and hopes that this is indeed the case so that he can prolong his existence virtually."