[Spoken: Ray Kurzweil]
We've already made very good progress on that
We've reversed engineered a number of different regions, like the cerebellum, which is responsible for our skill formation, and slices of cerebral cortex, where we do our recursive thinking, and the auditory cortex, the visual cortex, and so on
By 2029, we'll have reverse engineered, and modeled, and simulated, all the regions of the brain
And that will provide us the software, algorithmic methods, to simulate, you know, all of the human brain's capabilities, including our emotional intelligence
And computers at that time will be far more powerful than the human brain
And we'll be able to create machines that really do have the subtlety and suppleness of human intelligence
And they'll combine that power with ways in which machines are already superior to us
They can, uh, harness all of human knowledge, uh, with a few keystrokes, it can remember billions of things accurately
They can share knowledge at electronic speeds that are million times faster than—than human language
So, it will be very powerful combination
But the—the last point I'll make is that it's not some alien invasion of intelligent machines coming from Mars to invade us
It's coming from within our civilization, and the whole point of it is to extend our reach
Ever since we picked up a stick to reach a higher branch, we've used our tools to extend our reach
We can now already extend our reach mentally
I can take out a device from my pocket and access all of human knowledge with a few keystrokes