PZ Myers – a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris – as a thing or three to say about Ray Kurzweil’s claim that we’ll reverse engineer the brain by 2020. Personal attacks aside, he makes a strong point.
Reverse-engineering the human brain, so we can simulate it using computers, may be only a decade away, says Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of the best-selling book The Singularity is Near.
