Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human intelligence
I am seriously interested in understanding why a lot of people have no issue accepting the idea of humans evolving from simple immaterial matter into biological beings and all the way up to our current reality but have a hard time believing that can be done via computers.<p>I would at least put it in the very likely box that computers can learn to be the same kind of pattern recognizing feedback loops that we are even without humans understanding the brain completely just as we became conscious and self aware without any "programmer".<p>"Computers" don't need to be like us to become intelligent, they don't actually need to reproduce the lungs and the intestine as we have it, they are in many ways free of those restrictions.<p>They might be "concerned" with very different things than we are and might even not really care about nature to survive. All they need is energy.