From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 22 2000 - 20:22:26 MDT
>On Sunday, the BBC printed a very positive article about roboticist and AI
>supporter Hans Moravec.
>http://www.transhuman.memetree.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/133259
Hmm:
>One such prediction is that by 2050 robots will have the "brainpower" of a
>human mind.
Maybe Hans has shifted his estimate into the future by yet another decade,
then (it's hard to tell from the brief article). In MIND CHILDREN it was
2030. In ROBOT, 2040.
Damien Broderick
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