• Question: In what year do you think we will develop intelligent computers?

    Asked by Silversurfer1000 to Iain on 17 Jun 2015.
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      Iain Bethune answered on 17 Jun 2015:


      We have already developed computers that can play chess, even trivia games like Jeopardy! that are better the humans. But a general-purpose artificial intelligence is still 100s of years away – simply because we don’t yet understand how human intelligence works well enough to replicate it in a computer.

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