Posted on 03/29/2023 1:09:09 PM PDT by Red Badger
Aformer Google engineer has made a stark realization that humans will achieve immortality in eight years - and 86 percent of his 147 predictions have been correct.
Ray Kurzweil spoke with the YouTube channel Adagio, discussing the expansion in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, which he believes will lead to age-reversing 'nanobots.'
These tiny robots will repair damaged cells and tissues that deteriorate as the body ages and make us immune to diseases like cancer.
The predictions that such a feat is achievable by 2030 have been met with excitement and skepticism, as curing all deadly diseases seems far out of reach.
Kurzweil was hired by Google in 2012 to 'work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing,' but he was making predictions in technological advances long before.
In 1990, he predicted the world's best chess player would lose to a computer by 2000, and it happened in 1997 when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov.
Kurzweil made another startling prediction in 1999: he said that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have a human brain's computing power and storage capacity.
Now the former Google engineer believes technology is set to become so powerful it will help humans live forever, in what is known as the singularity.
Singularity is a theoretical point when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and changes the path of our evolution, LifeBoat reports.
Kurzweil, an author who describes himself as a futurist, predicted that technological singularity would happen by 2045, with AI passing a valid Turing test in 2029.
It is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.
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Yes..................
Not in THIS life!
Forever with God and His Son Jesus and in heavenly bliss, yes!........................
It’s like the Nostradamus Quatrains.
Find a quatrain that fits a certain current situation, then claim he predicted it!.............
See "Fantastic Voyage"............https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage
So, they just want fewer people so the chosen will remain
Ever read Atlantis......................
Not at my job.
They max out at 360 hours.................
Just like Dr. Moriarty on Star Trek TNG.................
Spend the earnings. Don’t touch the capital
Crap.. how can you ever get to eternity if you can’t even get to forever.
That may be so, but AI is not enough because figuring things out is often the easiest part of solving a problem. Convincing an essential core of people that you are right, lining up the necessary investment capital and a workable remedy and business model, and overcoming regulatory delays and marketplace resistance are usually hard and time-consuming.
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These are all questions that can be submitted to AI for answers quickly.
As best as I can tell, the emerging cures for the major killing diseases and the aging process also tend to suffer from high cost and the need for lengthy and expensive clinical trials. Even if Kurzweil is right and eight years delivers the needed bundle of treatments and cures, I do not see them becoming fully available for another half decade or more — and even then, cost will often be a problem.
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Yeah this may be the case.,,.if simulations are not at acceptable levels of reliability in 7 years.
The tell here will be whether Musk can get his autonomous vehicles up to levels of safety and reliability that are acceptable. Part of that work will be with AI and part of that will by byo simulations.
I have no clue as to how that plays out.
The big picture is that a zillion assumptions that each of us have about the rate of change or how things change are going to go out the window.
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