Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold. Ray Kurzweil More Quotes by Ray Kurzweil More Quotes From Ray Kurzweil To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend. Ray Kurzweil spiritualmeanreality What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make. Ray Kurzweil decisions-we-makeour-timeimportant Play is just another version of work Ray Kurzweil versionsplay Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills. Ray Kurzweil skillspersonalitymemories In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic. Ray Kurzweil phonestechnologyself Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach. Ray Kurzweil creatingtoolspeople We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer at the level of one cell. Ray Kurzweil cancercellsintelligent Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next. Ray Kurzweil our-worldorderbelieve Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them. Ray Kurzweil machinesmirrorsself By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses. Ray Kurzweil eyeglasseslensescomputer We're democratizing the tools of creativity. Ray Kurzweil creativitytools As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't go away but the nonbiological portion will be much more powerful. And it will be uploaded automatically the way we back up everything now that's digital. Ray Kurzweil powerfulcloudsthinking Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it. Ray Kurzweil sufferingovercomingmean The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. Ray Kurzweil levelsevolutionstories We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. Ray Kurzweil consciousselfideas I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started. Ray Kurzweil trendslongworld The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality. Ray Kurzweil next-stepsenergypeople The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates. Ray Kurzweil technologyrunningwater If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030. Ray Kurzweil motivationinspirationfall Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. Ray Kurzweil differencestechnologyreality
