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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No, if Kurzweil is correct, Social Security and Medicare will be saved due to a surge in productivity, cost savings, and tax revenue. I am skeptical though because the innovation that he is looking to — nanorobotics — is so far more conjectural than real.
I agree. Why couldn’t they come up with this stuff when I was about 20?
maybe biden is the crash test dummy...
Ray Kurzweil is a much smarter man than I am. I’ve heard him speak in person several times, I have some of his books and I have the utmost respect for the man, his accomplishments and his vision. But his attempts to apply Moore’s Law to medicine, bio-technology and AI have never made much sense to me.
I am sure they think they do!
I have this echo of a memory of a SciFi short story along those lines. I think I will research that!
Why would anybody want to live forever?
How to create a real over population problem.
Google. He knows how to code not much else
They need to hurry! I don’t know if I’ve got eight years.
As a man or a woman?
My grandpa loved Henny Youngman. Miss you, Grandpa!
Ok, seriously doubt this.
No thank you. My alloted time will do quite nicely.
because they can.
Umm... pretty sure it's because they WANT TO...
The world is going batsh1t crazy. Anyone would be insane to keep living here forever on the trajectory its currently on.
Amen!
What hubris spittle- like those who bragged that the Titanic was unsinkable. The arrogance of prideful humanity seems to be what’s ‘immortal’ instead.
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