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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Migrants would flood in at an even great pace, demanding immortality as equity, as reparations for colonialism and slavery.
Not that it will happen. I remember Art Bell saying in the 1990s that if you're under 50 (back then) there's a chance that you will never die.
We will all live forever.
But some will spend that time in “outer darkness where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth”.
I would have said Kurzweil was nuts 5 months ago—but AI has changed all that. What it does is vastly accelerate the speed at which people figure things out.
If its not about the nanobots. Its about the speed at which people figure things out. So if its not nanobots, it will be something else.
I’m probably closer to the innovations in AI than most people on this thread.
I would have said Kurzweil was drinking too much coffee if he made the immortal bot prediction 5 months ago.
Now not so much. I’m seeing up close and personal the vast acceleration that AI is causing.
That acceleration is the speed at which people figure things out.
If its not nano bots—it will be something else. I’ve seen work now on scientists regrowing limbs of animals successfully. They do it because the all animals have the program for their entire body still with them after they have reached adulthood. The program is in every cell of their body. Its just not being implimented.
What scientists are learning to do is turn on the program. Right now its just doing simple stuff. They can cut off the limb of a salamander or frog. Then turn on the program in the cells. They use the same program they used to grow the arm in first place. It regrows the limb and then stops.
I’ve seen the same thing where scientists will destroy the occular nerve behind the eye of a mouse. Then they regrow it.
Scientist will steadily move up the chain of the animal kingdom.
What AI will do is enable them to do it faster.
Thanks that exactly what he meant
And fwiw kurzweils predictions predate his affiliation with google and have been pretty accurate
Doesn’t sound like a very fun form of immortality to me, basically he thinks you will be downloaded into a computer. Assuming that would even translate into any sort of “life”. Does he think you will be allowed to have any input into “living” society? Or will you just be forced to a spectator watching the world pass by inside your little microprocessor. And how long until someone gets tired of paying for the power and maintenance to keep your virtual life going (computers degrade and need repairs too). Then you’ll just be shut off and stuck in a corner.
A self-driving truck would be even funnier.
The Singularity is upon us, right now. The only thing stopping it is a robust 'neural implant', followed very quickly by the silicon-based x carbon-based full merger.
The irony is, the OpenAI that exists right now, today, will solve that problem; ie, the Singularity will build itself, which is so incredibly apropros that it is both godlessness and godhead writ large upon humanity.
99% of you simply lack the alacrity to understand, to grok what is about to happen.
I understand and I simply say: "Schadenfreude."
Are you talking about transhumanism?
Living forever means you can rack up a lot of vacation days.
Guess what?
Man already has eternal life = Heaven or Hell!
Read your Catholic Bible and you may understand! (Matthew 25:31-46)
They can’t even treat a cold or flu properly. Let these people have their false immortality. I put my eternal hope in Yeshua. He will not fail. Those who alter their genes, will be blotted out. No chance for them. Like the giants of old, they judge themselves.
Forever with THIS BODY? Roll me back to 25-30 it would be nice. When the Hormones were flowing high, and it seemed like nobody or thing could stop my dreams. I have 19 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren, 2 sons 1 DIL, 5 daughters and SIL’s. I am happy, but a bit tired. Come quickly Lord Jesus.
What a ride though.
Watch “Altered Carbon” on Netflix. Get a look at immortality, for those who can afford it.
Later. (Thanks for the recommendation.)
I seem to remember being taught that salamanders and frogs could do that all by themselves?
There won’t be tiny robots, although that would make a good scary animation film. It’s that it will be possible to duplicate the entire contents of our brains and put them into a robot. That will essentially be you without the common cold.
Good catch. Frogs can’t regrow their legs. Some species of salamanders can regrow their legs.
The experiments in regrowing limbs were done on frogs.
Congrats but this technology REVERSES aging so, after a while we’ll be back to our youth ! HA !
I’ll not bet on the come.
Life’s been great, but not easy for any of us. A great long, peaceful rest will be most welcomed.
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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