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Machines 'to match man by 2029'

Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil.

The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.

"It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil explained.

"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.

Man versus machine

"I've made the case that we will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029," he said.

TEN PER CENT USAGE OF THE BRAIN? DEBUNKING THE DEBUNKERS

THE TEN PER CENT “MYTH”

The idea that we only use around ten per cent of our brain’s potential has been around for some time. Einstein is said to be one who made the argument although there is no proof of that.

Those who argue that this assertion is false, often fall back on their own work or that of other scientits who have shown, using various imaging techniques, that all parts of the brain are in action at some time when various thoughts or processes are happening (not all at once and not all in one process).  They say this could not be observed if only ten per cent of the brain was in use.

Aren’t they missing a huge point?