A panel of futurists across a number of disciplines have picked 2029 as the year when ai agents finally get up to human speed.
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, spokesman Ray Kurzweil told the BBC Mr Kurzweil is one of 18 influential thinkers chosen to identify the great technological challenges facing humanity in the 21st century by the US National Academy of Engineering.
The picture shows an Intelligent female" android from Tokyo’s robotdreams.com.
