Intel’s CTO Justin Rattner previews the next 40 years. Fueled by the exponential growth in compute power and interconnectedness, machines may be on track to become smarter than their human creators in the near future. Rattner provides leading-edge evidence of the narrowing human-machine interface that’s driving the advance to what futurists call “The Singularity” or the point at which machines become smarter than humans.
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The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up
With a du jour definition of The Singularity of “when computers become more intelligent than humans”, we are left begging the question: What is meant by “intelligence”? What is “artifical intelligence”? What will be the impact of artificial intelligence exceeding its “natural” predecessor?
Computers have exceeded human mental capabilities in certain ways from their inception: memory, calculation, following rules of logic, in terms of speed or accuracy. So, then, what are we left to wait for?
I wish the article explored the proposition of the introduction, rather than digressing to “cool future technology” – true, that technology is intriguing, but doesn’t live up to “the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to” what will be our thinking machines.