'Robots will outsmart humans within 15 yrs'

In 1990, he predicted the rise of the internet and that a world chess champion would one day be beaten by a computer. In reality it happened two years earlier than that, when in 1996 IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov.He also foresaw the future uses of the internet in the days when it was still an obscure program being used by academics to store research data.
Now Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil has said machines will outsmart their makers by 2029.
The 66-year-old entrepreneur and futureologist believes that in 15 years' time machines will be able to crack jokes, tell stories and even flirt.
He is currently working on a project with Google which will allow computers to fully understand language and learn from experience.
The prediction comes at the same time Google assembles the largest artificial intelligence laboratory on the planet.
The company has recently bought Boston Dynamics, which makes advanced military robots, and paid £242million for British start-up DeepMind, which specialises in machine learning.
Boston Dynamics makes the LS3 walker robot, which resembles a horse, and can navigate almost any terrain including steep slopes, rocky ground and dense vegetation.