Kurzweil rebuts Scientific American on machine intelligence

Foresight advisor Ray Kurzweil has responded to a critique of his views on machine intelligence by Scientific American: "If you do the thought experiment of considering the implications of multiple generations of technology, the availability over the next several decades of enormous increases in the capacity of our computational andcommunication tools, the advent of molecularnanotechnology, and far greater insight into the principles of operation of the human brain, I believe that our perspectives will converge.
Ray is always so polite…Note that SciAm's views on Bjorn Lomborg were recently (and vehemently) overturned by the Danish Minstry of Science. This is not the SciAm we remember from our youth.–CP