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Ray Kurzweil On How We'll End Up Merging With Our Technology (foxnews.com)
Mr.Intel quotes a report from Fox News: "By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence," Kurzweil said in an interview at the SXSW Conference with Shira Lazar and Amy Kurzweil Comix. Known as the Singularity, the event is oft discussed by scientists, futurists, technology stalwarts and others as a time when artificial intelligence will cause machines to become smarter than human beings. The time frame is much sooner than what other stalwarts have said, including British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, as well as previous predictions from Kurzweil, who said it may occur as soon as 2045. Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, who recently acquired ARM Holdings with the intent on being one of the driving forces in the Singularity, has previously said it could happen in the next 30 years. Kurzweil apparently ins't worried about the rise in machine learning and artificial intelligence. In regard to AI potentially enslaving humanity, Kurzweil said, "That's not realistic. We don't have one or two AIs in the world. Today we have billions." He shares a similar view with Elon Musk by saying that humans need to converge with machines, pointing out the work already being done in Parkinson's patients. "They're making us smarter," Kurzeil said during the SXSW interview. "They may not yet be inside our bodies, but, by the 2030s, we will connect our neocortex, the part of our brain where we do our thinking, to the cloud... We're going to be funnier, we're going to be better at music. We're going to be sexier. We're really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree." You can watch the full interview on Facebook.
He's the absolute king at predicting stuff that never happens. He's always talking 10 years ahead - everything with him is "In , is going to happen..."
He's absolute crap - he reminds me of guys who talk all kinds of bollocks about crypto and don't actually understand modular arithmetic ;).
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Are you sure about that?
Average life expectancy, excluding child mortality, has only increased moderately since the stone age.
They only had to work a few hours per day to provide food, clothing, etc., so they likely had a lot more free time than anyone with a "real job" does today.
Their work directly contributed to the survival and well-being of themselves and their families, no pointless soul-killing jobs for a paycheck.
They already had alcohol and other drugs, and many board games.
Nobody was dramatically richer than anyone else, and political corruption was limited to what the leaders could personally convince their tribe was a good idea.
They had never seen daytime television or Hollywood movies.
Honestly, in a lot of ways I think "civilization" has been an elaborate ponzi scheme, with only a select few truly benefiting.
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