Scientist, Robert Jastrow on AI and the likely fate of humanity; 1982

NASA scientist and astronomer, speaking in 1982, on his belief that artificial intelligence will supersede human intelligence in the near future. “Our descendant will not be the child of the loin but the child of the brain. It’s the thing we call the computer which does not have to pass through the birth canal and does not grow by a tablespoon of grey matter every hundred thousand years which is the case in the rapid growth of our brain, but grows a factor of ten in power every seven years; the computer generation. There’s no question that it will match us in narrow reasoning power by 1990 and go beyond us to become the great new intelligent race of the future.” (LSFA243F - AEVZ001J)
NASA scientist and astronomer, speaking in 1982, on his belief that artificial intelligence will supersede human intelligence in the near future. “Our descendant will not be the child of the loin but the child of the brain. It’s the thing we call the computer which does not have to pass through the birth canal and does not grow by a tablespoon of grey matter every hundred thousand years which is the case in the rapid growth of our brain, but grows a factor of ten in power every seven years; the computer generation. There’s no question that it will match us in narrow reasoning power by 1990 and go beyond us to become the great new intelligent race of the future.” (LSFA243F - AEVZ001J)
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21 March, 1982
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