Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 412.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:08:51 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Relationship between Human and Computers: A Challenge to
AI research?
Dear humanist scholars,
Hi, I thought..this excerpt might interest you, forwarded via "Edupage, 19
June 2000". Thank you..
WILL MY PC BE SMARTER THAN I AM?
The line between humans and computers will increasingly blur in the
future, as cell-sized robots called nanobots allow scientists to make
computer-based models of the human brain and to enhance human minds with
nanobot implants, writes Ray Kurzweil. Nanobots will likely be able to
scan the inside of the brain by 2030, enabling researchers to
reverse-engineer the brain. Nonbiological models of the brain will be able
to learn more quickly than humans, since the replicas will be able to
easily share information with other computers. In addition, the models
will run on systems that are over 10 million times faster than the brain's
electrochemical processes. Neural computers will surpass the brain's
basic computational power by a significant amount, combining humans'
diverse skills with machines' speed, accuracy, and data-sharing
capability. Nanobots will also enable completely realistic, immersive
virtual reality, so that visiting a Web site would mean interacting in a
life-like virtual environment in which natural human senses would be
replaced with signals designed for the virtual realm. (Time, 19 June 2000)
Kind Regards
Arun Tripathi
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