http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...rt-claims.html
"Kurzweil, an author who describes himself as a futurist and works on Google's machine learning project, predicted that technological singularity would happen by 2029 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas.
Singularity is when carbon and silicon-based intelligence will merge to form a single global consciousness.
'By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence,' Kurzweil said in the interview with SXSW.
'That leads to computers having human intelligence, our putting them inside our brains, connecting them to the cloud, expanding who we are.
'Today, that's not just a future scenario,' Kurzweil said. 'It's here, in part, and it's going to accelerate', he said.
Kurzweil said that machines are already making us smarter and by connecting these machines to our neocortex they will help people think more smartly.
However, Kurzweil said he wasn't concerned about the threat that intelligent robots might pose to humanity, according to Futurism.com. "
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