MIL/Agencies/techgadgets, Feb 24, 2008. Author:
February 24, 2008 – Time is not far when a computer shall have equal ability by 2020 as man has today. It shall share the knowledge with human being instantly in a conversation, debate and many other fields. It shall also be able to overcome aging and disease problems and a human being could live for a longer and healthy life. It shall construct a ‘post human’ world, wherein second, intelligent entity is expected to exist beside people.
American computer Guru Ray Kurzweil has envisioned a new advancement that indicates that computers might have a “matching human intellect by the 2020s.”
The intellectual abilities that PCs would incorporate would help the world to resolve some of the most significant intractable problems of the 21st century.
Ray drew his envisage after noticing the computer chips that have doubled the power and keep enhancing its energy every half-century. He expects in the next half of the century, 32 times more technical progress will be observed.
Computers, which are developed by 2D chips made of silicon, are now in the process of using 3D chips with vastly improved performances. These three-dimensional chips could be made from biological molecules to reduce the size of the chips as compared to metal-based computer chips.
It is also believed that computation, communication, biological technologies as well as human knowledge have improved at a much faster pace and continue to increase the capacity, bandwidth as well as performance as time processes.
“Three-dimensional, molecular computing will provide the hardware for human-level ‘strong artificial intelligence’ by the 2020s. The more important software insights will be gained in part from the reverse engineering of the human brain, a process well under way. Already, two dozen regions of the human brain have been modeled and simulated,” predicted leading scientific futurologist Ray Kurzweil.
Ray also forecasts, “We are understanding disease and aging processes as information processes, and are gaining the tools to re-program them. Within two decades, we will be in a position to stop and reverse the progression of disease and aging resulting in dramatic gains in health and longevity.”
