I would think more of these predictions if they came attached to some concrete goals. Could we have a list of specific tasks that will be accomplished by the ma

I would think more of these predictions if they came attached to some concrete goals. Could we have a list of specific tasks that will be accomplished by the machines in 2029? "Win the world Go championship", perhaps? "Produce a Russian-to-English translation of Crime and Punishment that passes the Turing test?" "Provide better color commentary than the average Fox Sports announcer?" That should be an easy one, but I'm still not betting on the machine. And I marvel at the tremendous effectiveness of the typical futurist trick: make the banal sound incredible and then predict it: "We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons," he told BBC News. I've got those. They're called cells. I sneeze billions of them out every day. I suppose you might ask whether it's fair to call my white blood cells "intelligent"... but they do have autonomous capabilities, and they do self-organize via a body-wide signaling network. They're pretty talented. I challenge you to produce a device on the same scale that is significantly more intelligent... by 2029.