The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right. Ray Kurzweil More Quotes by Ray Kurzweil More Quotes From Ray Kurzweil I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. Ray Kurzweil computer language understanding [In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge. Ray Kurzweil computer way thinking The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. Ray Kurzweil telephones together reality By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter. Ray Kurzweil body brain profound The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings? Ray Kurzweil issues keys rights Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me; they are mental constructs in my own brain. Ray Kurzweil dream brain people My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google. Ray Kurzweil google team understanding By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality. Ray Kurzweil eyeglasses woven reality I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything. Ray Kurzweil picks priorities can-do What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together fit together in a single exceedingly simple structure. They basically look like a cube. They basically run in three perpendicular directions, and in each one of those three directions the pathways are highly parallel to each other and arranged in arrays. So, instead of independent spaghettis, we see that the connectivity of the brain is, in a sense, a single coherent structure. Ray Kurzweil independent taken running When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective. Ray Kurzweil phones cells powerful It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years. Ray Kurzweil two mean years The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off. Ray Kurzweil motivation inspiration running A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life. Ray Kurzweil singularity I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. Ray Kurzweil entrepreneurship inventor entrepreneur With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it. Ray Kurzweil intelligent reading military My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights). Ray Kurzweil rights animal reality Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment. Ray Kurzweil wave surfing moments Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. Ray Kurzweil effort events giving That’s not realistic, we don’t have one or two AIs in the world. Today we have billions. Ray Kurzweil tech
