, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. As an entrepreneur, Kurzweil has founded businesses in the fields of OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality and financial investment. He is the author of numerous books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), the technological singularity and futurism . The Kurzweilian version of the future is the inevitable merger of humans and intelligent machines. In this discussion with Computer History Museum Senior Curator Dag Spicer, Kurzweil shares his vision of how technology will re-shape the human body (and culture generally) into one that incorporates advanced technologies into a new type of post-human organism. Kurzweil sees this transformation occurring over the next 20 to 50 years and beginning with the integration of electronic-based systems into the human body. Some decades after that, a further transformation occurs – one based on nanotechnology-which incorporates the manipulation and construction of interfaces and complex systems based on atomic-level structures that merge with and control specific bodily functions and attack its problems (ie cancer). Some of the philosophical implications of Kurzweils vision are also discussed.</p>
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@ TheReasonableLogic Make no mistake Kurzweil is Reptilian.
I’m not so enamored with man’s technological capabilities that I ignore the fact that our efficient extraction / use of resources is inherently entropic. Complex systems tend to be diffuse and inefficient (think of a healthy forest ecosystem for true complexity). We’re a fucking monoculture and our house of cards is stacked very high. We’re animals who evolved “in the service of entropy to redress a hydrocarbon energy imbalance” to closely paraphrase Kurt Cobb.
Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand The Brain.
This guy is full of shit, I like Kurzweil and what he’s contributed to science and music. But what he’s saying is not factual, he has all the signs of the common lie, from the sweating to rolling his eyes and his body language. This shit is actually creepy wtf is wrong with is eyes? That is not normal. Maybe he’s already part man / computer. Understand that the technology that we get publicly is not the same technology guys like him have. They had technology that’s new to us now years back.
Average 12 year old? Errr …
@ 4everkeimThat’s because like my own parents, they are only really steeped in Religious nonsense. They aren’t open like you and I to extrapolating technological progress and searching for the possible implications.
@ SlyamkenI don’t think you understand. These choices come from a good understanding of myself, not a need to figure myself out better. I don’t see how being happy requires revision.
@ Scotti3Pipp3n Pardon my ignorance because I just stumbled on a copy of the age of spiritual machines a few days ago so this is all new to me, but do you think a machine will ever be able to be conscious? Will they ever be able to question reality and what the universe it is? Don’t get mr wrong I hope what he preaches actually happens but i’m not to sure if machines would ever be able to acquire our consciousness. It seems that we can program them and they can further problem solve.
@ Gherkinspeiler maybe you should rethink your life and your ambitions then
@ SisK0211In the technological singularity isn’t part for “better”; only “different”:)
@ BelgianGuristaYou doubt that part because he touched his nose?!
I would love to connect my brain to ray’s brain and just chill with him.guess i have to wait 30 more years before i can
@ TolstoievskyYes, I am for real. I am trying to get a job so I can actually have a place in September, but if not, I will start walking the nation. It seems like it could be an adventure.I always have looked back on the past times, and said that times were good. Even when bad things happened, I can look back and say that was a good time in my life. If this is true, then now is also a good time in my life.Happiness comes from within.
@ Gherkinspeiler =))))))) omg what a great reply. Are you for real?
Mike Treder – in his articles for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies – completely rips Kurzweil’s arguments into shreds. The exponential growth of technological progress will be sidetracked by ethical, economic, political and environmental issues.
22:47 His body language is telling that he makes a wild assumption. He touches his nose after a statement. And that happens when ppl make a lie or a wild assumption. I don’t think it’s a lie, but an assumption in this case.Hmm I’d like to know the actual algorithm that is hardwired for bodylanguage and why we do it. Gotta wait another 10 years then ye? Meh.
You said “machines cannot reproduce”. Well, if you mean reproduce as in creating “life” biologically, then sure. But what is “life”? A conscious minded being that is self-aware? So actually, AI robotics will be able to reproduce. That’s inevitable – It will ultimately be by AI robotic “reproduction” that furthers the creation of more intelligent and sophisticated AI.
@ Buzznandes To answer your questions-We already compete with machines.-Yes; they already do work for us.-I don’t understand that question,- Yes, but they will become an outcast because society will deem it strange.- No, machines cannot reproduce.-Possibly to do the paperwork and make decisions, but an actual human would be needed to keep humanity’s trust in the government.
If we could only have minds like Ray Kurzweil grow exponentially as well, imagine the possibilities …..
@ SisK0211 That’s not quite how it’ll be. If we can build self-replicating nanobots, there’s no reason why * everyone * can’t have them, as much as they want. We’ll be post-scarcity. Hard to wrap your head around, but it’s an important part of the singularitarian image.
The great thing of this vid is that Mr Kurzweil ALSO gives good thought to the negatives of technology. Something his “critics” always conveniently forget to mention.
I am scared that intelligence will become a luxury and not a gift from a mother nature …It will be something like: Oh, man stfu, I have better nano bots in my brain, you are no match to my intelligence … You are poor = you are stupid
@ SVBarnardThe future will never be better if you can hate your life now. Happiness can only come from within. No amount of external things can change your actual happiness level.I am not a virgin (but I haven’t had sex in years), but I also have no job, no money, and I live with a friend on his extreme charity. I have eaten leftovers for over a month.Yet, I am happy.
@ PrimalAnarchy your profile indicates you are in favor of anarchy and opposed to technology … um lmao.also you’re using technology to voice your opposition to it … ironic?
What a horrible, despicable man this is.