The founder of Microsoft is not afraid of smart computers and a riot of cars

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Futurologists Vernor Winj and Ray Kurzweil claimed that the world is rapidly moving to a critical point when the growing pace of improving machines in the near future was ahead of all human abilities. They call this point of no return in singularity , noting that when achieving it, it is impossible to foresee the future of mankind. Winj and Kurzweil claim that as soon as such cars appear, they will receive superhuman intelligence, which will be so incomprehensible to us that our mind is not even able to imagine how much our life will change. Winj asks us to think about the role of people in a world where cars are as smarter than us as we are our home dogs and cats. A slightly more optimistic kurzweil draws the future in which the development of medical nanotechnologies will allow us to load a copy of the brain into these superhuman machines, leaving our bodies, and, in a sense, to live forever. This is a rather impressive assumption.

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