Computers Projected To Overtake Human Brain By 2020

Like a guessing game of where a stock price will land in the future, scientists are speculating on when computers will reach a level of intelligence equal that that of the human brain and when they will actually become smarter than humans. In his new book, “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers and Strategies,” Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, lays out a range of predictions from the top artificial intelligence (AI) researchers in the field. Computers to compete with a human brain by 2020 His work, reported in Bloomberg, suggests a 10 percent probability computers become…