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Ray Kurzweil: We're going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045

5 points| irq | 1 year ago |theguardian.com

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irq|1 year ago

Some choice quotes:

> 2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI)

> The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur when we merge our brain with the cloud

> Making it possible will be brain-computer interfaces which ultimately will be nanobots – robots the size of molecules – that will go noninvasively into our brains through the capillaries.

> In the early 2030s we can expect to reach longevity escape velocity where every year of life we lose through ageing we get back from scientific progress.

nabla9|1 year ago

Ray Kurzweil wants to live forever and all his predictions rationalize the timeline so that he has a change to reach the rapture.

He is now 76 and hopes to live 2030.

Bluestein|1 year ago

I mean, I, for one, hope the guy makes it.-

chrisjj|1 year ago

Top choice quote:

> The computing that we have today is basically perfect

Er.... :)

irq|1 year ago

I thought it was notable that he was directly asked about the surveillance aspect of all of this and he did not seem to respond to that subject.

chrisjj|1 year ago

Plus:

> All the major companies are putting more effort into making sure their systems are safe and align with human values than they are into creating new advances

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