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A scientist thinks robots will be more intelligent than by 2029. His name is Ray Kurzweil. He works for Google as of Engineering. He is a expert on artificial intelligence (A.I.). Mr Kurzweil says computers will learn from , just like . He says they will tell and stories, and even flirt. His 2029 is a lot sooner than many people thought. In 1999, many said it would take hundreds of years for computers to be very intelligent. Now it won't be before computer intelligence is one billion times more powerful than the human .

Mr Kurzweil joked that many years , people thought he was a little . His thinking has stayed the same but everyone else has changed their . He said his views were not crazy any more. He said the of the world was changing its . He pointed to examples of high-tech we use, see or read about every day. These make us think computers are . He said people changed because the public has seen things like voice-recognition , where you talk to a computer. He also said Google's self-driving make people think about computer .

 


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