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American computer Guru Ray Kurzweil has envisioned a new advancement that indicates that computers might have a “matching human intellect by the 2020s.”

The intellectual abilities that PCs would incorporate would help the world to resolve some of the most significant intractable problems of the 21st century. Ray drew his envisage after noticing the computer chips that have doubled the power and keep enhancing its energy every half-century. He expects in the next half of the century, 32 times more technical progress will be observed.

Computers, which are developed by 2D chips made of silicon, are now in the process of using 3D chips with vastly improved performances. These three-dimensional chips could be made from biological molecules to reduce the size of the chips as compared to metal-based computer chips.

It is also believed that computation, communication, biological technologies as well as human knowledge have improved at a much faster pace and continue to increase the capacity, bandwidth as well as performance as time processes.

“Three-dimensional, molecular computing will provide the hardware for human-level ‘strong artificial intelligence’ by the 2020s. The more important software insights will be gained in part from the reverse engineering of the human brain, a process well under way. Already, two dozen regions of the human brain have been modeled and simulated,” predicted leading scientific futurologist Ray Kurzweil.

Ray also forecasts, “We are understanding disease and ageing processes as information processes, and are gaining the tools to re-programme them. Within two decades, we will be in a position to stop and reverse the progression of disease and ageing resulting in dramatic gains in health and longevity.”

He also stated that PCs have taken a step to construct a ‘post human’ world, wherein second, intelligent entity is expected to exist beside people. For this, a computer needs to match its artificial intelligence with the human and continue to accelerate IT. It should even have the ability to instantly share their knowledge.