Despite ‘Terminator,’ machines still on our side: Scientists say AI will be humanity’s ‘Salvation’
May 26, 2009 | Source: Daily News
AI experts including Reid Simmons of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and Ray Kurzweil
say the post-apocalyptic “Terminator Salvation” scenario is unlikely.
“Kurzweil believes the technical advancement of the next few decades will herald a literal rewiring of the human brain. Given the shrinking costs of nanotechnology, it’s a matter of time before humans can turn themselves into supercomputers.”