AGI-World

While at IDF in San Francisco (Aug-08), I had the pleasure of watching, from the front row no less, Intel’s CTO, Justin Rattner explain+support Ray Kurzweil’s concept of the technological singularity. This is big. Now, more and more high level executives will come out in support w/o fear of loosing their jobs.

Intel’s chief technology officer, Justin Rattner, had his eye firmly fixed on the future at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

In his closing keynote speech Rattner said that Ray Kurzweil’s concept of ‘the Singularity’, a point when human and artificial intelligence merges to create something bigger than itself, could be just 40 years away.

Intel predicts singularity by 2048

At the Intel Developer Forum here, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner showed off a number of technologies in computing, robotics, and communication that he cited as evidence that Ray Kurzweil’s concept of “singularity,” when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, is impending.

“We’re making steady progress toward Ray Kurtzweil’s singularity,” Rattner said.

Intel touts progress toward intelligent computers

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Also of note, with Ray Kurzweil, Ben Goertzel and others, Justin Rattner plans to speak at the Singularity Summit (Oct 25, 2008) in San Jose (website forthcoming).