Silicon.com asked leading thinkers in the realm of artificial intelligence where they think AI will be in the year 2100. On the conservative side, we have responses from Noel Sharkey, who sees autonomous cars and more use of robots in medicine. On the more radical side, we have Ray Kurzweil, who believes we will have human-level AI by 2029 and will be exploring beyond our solar system by the year 2100.
With the exception of Kurzweil, however, the other respondents are much less sure about what the year 2100 will hold for humanity. Will we even have machines capable of passing the Turing Test? Will we still be the dominant species?
It’s safe to say humanity will undergo more change in the next century than it has in its entire existence. If Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns is even somewhat accurate, however, it will be difficult to predict what, exactly, that change will look like.