The future of machine intelligence at IDF

Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner agrees with futurist Ray Kurzweil's assessment that the point is nigh when machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence.

To provide some evidence that technology is moving in that direction, he showed a number of advancements in robotics, communication, and other areas in a keynote speech on Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

In the above image, Rattner snatches an apple from the grasp of a robot arm and hand that can sense objects purely by changes in the surrounding electric field.