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"artilects" artificial intellects will outstrip man's brain
But rather than offer us hope, another leading computer scientist believes these inroads in to the mind threaten oblivion.
Professor Hugo de Garis is the architect of some of the world's most complex neural networks - computers that evolve their own intelligence.
Now he is deeply conflicted over the future he is helping to create.
Prof De Garis believes that in a matter of years machine intelligence will supersede our own by a factor of millions.
These so called artilects - short for artificial intellects - will be so powerful that they will appear "almost God-like".
But Prof De Garis fears that they may not be quite so benign.
"How will they feel about us - an inferior species?" he asks before drawing a doom-filled analogy.
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