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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has predicted that the company will be capable of developing artificial intelligence for its programs that will be indistinguishable from a human being within 5-10 years.<\/p>\n
During a question and answer session<\/a>\u00a0at Google\u2019s Big Tent event, which took place this week at the luxury Grove Hotel in Watford, UK, Schmidt responded to the question, \u201cHow soon before Google Now passes the Turing test?\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0Turing test<\/a>\u00a0is a concept first introduced in 1950 by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing which measures a machine\u2019s ability to exhibit behavior equivalent to a real human being.<\/p>\n After mentioning how IBM\u2019s Watson computer won Jeopardy, Schmidt responded that Google, \u201ccould do it in five to 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n The Big Tent event is the more public version of Google Zeitgeist, a private function that features a raft of influential speakers from the world of technology, business, academia and politics.<\/p>\n As we recently reported<\/a>, Google\u2019s primary vehicle for its artificial intelligence technology will likely be Google Now, the voice-recognizing search product which is being hyped as a tool that will eventually be able to manage almost every aspect of your life.<\/p>\n Eric Schmidt has never shied away from his vision, dystopic to some, of a future transhumanist world where robots will play a central role in managing human affairs.<\/p>\n The Google CEO has previously discussed his desire to\u00a0swallow nano-bots every morning<\/a>\u00a0that would regulate the functioning of his body, as well as\u00a0sending his robotic clone<\/a>\u00a0to social functions.<\/p>\n Top futurists like Ray Kurzweil have\u00a0embraced Schmidt\u2019s vision and took it even further<\/a>\u00a0– writing that within decades man will merge with machine and that by 2099 the entire planet will be run by artificially intelligent computer systems which are smarter than the entire human race combined \u2014 similar to the Skynet system fictionalized in the Terminator franchise.<\/p>\n Such predictions, allied with Schmidt\u2019s drive to see them come to fruition, make it all the more ominous that Kurzweil was hired by Google last year to oversee the company\u2019s project to \u201cproduce an artificial brain.\u201d<\/p>\n In an\u00a0interview with Wired<\/a>, Kurzweil noted that, \u201cA lot of (sci-fi) movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI\u2019s will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n *********************<\/p>\n Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for\u00a0Infowars.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Prison Planet.com<\/a>. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.<\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Friday, May 24, 2013 at 6:36 am<\/p>\n Tags: science<\/a>, technology<\/a><\/p>\n
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