Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.
Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.
We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.
We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.