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A scientist robots will be more intelligent than humans by 2029. The scientist's name is Ray Kurzweil. He for Google as Director of Engineering. He is one of the world's leading experts on artificial intelligence (A.I.). Mr Kurzweil computers will be able to from experiences, just like humans. He also they will be able to jokes and stories, and even flirt. Kurzweil's 2029 prediction is a lot sooner than many people . The scientist said that in 1999, many A.I. experts said it would be hundreds of years before a computer more intelligent than a human. He said that it would not long before computer intelligence one billion times more powerful than the human brain.

Mr Kurzweil that many years ago, people thought he was a little crazy for computers would as intelligent as humans. His thinking has the same but everyone else has the way they think. He said: "My views are not radical any more. I've actually consistent. It's the rest of the world that's its view." He highlighted examples of high-tech things we use, see or about every day. These things make us that computers have intelligence. He said people think differently now: "Because the public has things like Siri [the iPhone's voice-recognition technology] where you talk to a computer; they've seen the Google self-driving cars."

 


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