Ray Kurzweil Quotes
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding ou...
Show MoreOur technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that...
Show MoreBy the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks… We need to vastly incre...
Show MoreThe purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That wi...
Show MoreOur intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, ...
Show MorePlay is just another version of work
The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the speci...
Show MoreA primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the...
Show MoreRecall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the r...
Show MoreThe pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundam...
Show MoreThe story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. ...
Show MoreBy 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological an...
Show MoreArtificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 204...
Show MoreSometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of s...
Show MoreThe intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its ow...
Show MoreI'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get co...
Show MoreI think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billi...
Show MoreSupercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by a...
Show MoreTake death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary effo...
Show MoreDeath gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningle...
Show MoreA lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missin...
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