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Originally Posted by rowan
IIRC the estimates in the 1960s were to be able to simulate the human brain within only 20-30 years. Look where we are now.
Despite past (and possibly current) bad projections I do believe it's inevitable that one day we'll be able to create a sentient machine, and when it happens, we're fucked.
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Sure, but think about it. This was said over 50 years ago. No one then ever dreamed that we would hold more computer power in our hands than all of Nasa had at the time, nor could they have imagined a world with millions of networked computers and the crazy speeds we take for granted.
We may or may not have self-aware, thinking computers in 20 or 30 years, but predictions made today by scientists and thinkers are probably based on more data than what was available back in the 60's.