Ray Kurzweil: We're going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045
theguardian.comSome 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.
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.
I mean, I, for one, hope the guy makes it.-
Top choice quote:
> The computing that we have today is basically perfect
Er.... :)
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.
And there's security. I wonder what he'd do if Google login locked him out of his extended brain. Call an AI for help?
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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