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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I think that might be wise to do right now given the funding issues.
Yes, but it will just seem like an eternity.
Who gets to choose?
It certainly won’t be all of us!
WEF...............
Nanobots at the water cooler:
Nanobot 1: I got sent to the cerebral cortex so the client never gets dementia.
Nanobot 2: I’m on coronary artery duty. You’ve been quiet, Fred. Where have you been lately?
Nanobot 3: Hemorrhoid prevention.
Another Jetsons cartoon comes to fruition..................
Yes, but climate change is going to kill us all in 10 years.
“ Social Security and Medicare will really be in trouble...............”
Where have you been? It already is in trouble, but it would get worse. So they will raise new enrollees age to 900 years.
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I’m not so sure I want to live forever here. It’s becoming such a violent and crazy world. Any joy you experience is quickly marred by some crazy crap on the news.
I enjoy my grandkids, seeing my kids doing well, and a beautiful day out in my garden. Enjoy traveling. But that’s about it for this life. The truly good days are behind us now, unless we can orchestrate an all out civil war and eradicate/put away these demons that plague us all in this society. I would love to have something more to live for here, but just don’t. I live now to be with God more and more.
I once thought immortality would be wonderous, but the way things are headed, I’ve changed my mind.
Isn’t that about the same time climate change whacks us all?
Years ago my coworkers were discussing immortality. I said, “Can you imagine being stuck in this dead-end job forever? Can you imagine the same horrible people being the bosses forever? Imagine a society where nothing ever changes. I think that the best thing politicians ever do, even the good ones, is to die. Dr. Oppenheimer said, ‘science advances one funeral at a time.’ Make everyone immortal and it would be the last progress we ever saw.”
More likely we’ll be uploaded to the cloud and assimilated by an AI bot. The only way out will be by taking a red pill.
It isn’t going to happen. We were denied access to the Tree of Life for a reason.
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