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Computers will be more intelligent than humans within 40 years, according to Intel’s chief technology officer.

Justin Rattner was speaking at the final keynote of the Intel Developer Forum as Intel celebrates its 40th birthday, and he believed that the next 40 years will see the company create true AI.

‘In that time, machines from Intel will surpass human intelligence,’ he was quoted as saying on vnunet.com.

‘And progress in the next 100 years will be more like the progress of the past 20,000 years because of technology.’

Other inventions that the human race can look forward to in this time will be shape-shifting, programmable matter applications that can be controlled with the mind, reported ITPro.

Intel’s short-term goals are slightly less science-fictional, however, with the company signing a deal with Yahoo to enhance how people use their televisions by adding internet applications.

One example of this was a ’snippet bar’ at the bottom of the screen which contained information like weather, news, sports and share prices.

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Widgets and gadgets that users add on to their PCs could pose a security threat, according to Finnish security company Finjan.

Finjan’s Malicious Code Research Centre has found that add-ons that add functions to websites contain code which make the PC they are on more vulnerable to hackers.

The security model that gadgets and widgets have must now be completely revised to take these findings into account, Finjan stated.

Finjan chief technology officer Yuval Ben-Itzhak said: ‘As widgets become common in most modern computing environments, from operating system to web portals, their significance from a security standpoint rises.’

He added: ‘Vulnerabilities in widgets and gadgets enable attackers to gain control of user machines, and thus should be developed with security in mind.’

Corporations may need to deal with a ‘vast array’ of new security considerations, added Mr Ben-Itzhak.

Meanwhile, a new report from Symantec has warned that internet crime has gone from simply causing trouble to a multi-million pound industry.

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