Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029 294
Hallie Siegel writes "Robotics expert Alan Winfield offers a sobering counterpoint to Ray Kurzweil's recent claim that 2029 will be the year that robots will surpass humans. From the article: 'It’s not just that building robots as smart as humans is a very hard problem. We have only recently started to understand how hard it is well enough to know that whole new theories ... will be needed, as well as new engineering paradigms. Even if we had solved these problems and a present day Noonian Soong had already built a robot with the potential for human equivalent intelligence – it still might not have enough time to develop adult-equivalent intelligence by 2029'"
Re:Kurzweil is an idiot with Super Powers (Score:4, Informative)
...while there are certainly some Kurzweil nuthugging fanbois out there, they don't seem to exist in any vast number.
While those who have opinions of Kurzweil probably span the spectum, it seems that there's a bunch of level-headed folk who think Kurzweil is a smart guy with some interesting thoughts about the future, and on the other side, there's an angry mob throwing rotten fruit shouting "Your ideas are bad, and you should feel bad about it!"