Even Ray Kurzweil is nervous about a future with hyper-intelligent machines

Even Ray Kurzweil is nervous about a future with hyper-intelligent machines | VentureBeat: "Ray Kurzweil is looking forward to the year 2029. That’s the year he predicts our technology will be able to think without us — aka the date that computers pass the Turing test. Our computers are growing more powerful at an exponential rate, and even Kurzweil is impressed by what we can do with artificial intelligence (AI) today. He’s been making the prediction that 2029 is the date for some time, and he repeated the date onstage yesterday at the DEMO Fall 2012 conference multiple times. Still, even to someone who has seen it coming all along, progress in technology can be impressive."