Ray Kurzweil: Humanity

Ray Kurzweil is Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist. Explore interesting quotes on humanity.

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“Once a computer achieves human intelligence it will necessarily roar past it.”

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

“My own field, pattern recognition… is the fundamental capability of the human brain. We can't think fast enough to logically analyze situations quickly, so we rely on our powers of pattern recognition.”

Ray Kurzweil

"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“Creating an avatar of this sort is one way of embodying that information in a way that human beings can interact with. It is inherently human to transcend limitations.”

Ray Kurzweil

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“I think all human beings are and should be fearful [of death, but realizing that death is a real tragedy.”

Ray Kurzweil

Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id14267712 (2011)

“So whether information represents one man's sentimental archive, the accumulating knowledge base of the human-machine civilization, or the mind files stored in our brains, what can we conclude about the ultimate longevity of software? The answer is simply this: Information lasts only so long as someone cares about it. The conclusion that I've come […] is that there is no set of hardware and software standards existing today, nor any likely to come along, that will provide any reasonable level of confidence that the stored information will still be accessible […] decades from now.”

Ray Kurzweil

Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005), p. 329

“If you use conventional data compression on the [human brain's] genome, you get about 23 million bytes (a small fraction of the size of Microsoft Word), which is a level of complexity we can handle.”

Ray Kurzweil

"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“Until such time that computers at least match human intelligence in every dimension, it will always remain possible for skeptics to say the glass is half empty. Every new achievement of AI can be dismissed by pointing out other goals that have not yet been accomplished. Indeed, this is the frustration of the AI practitioner: once an AI goal is achieved, it is no longer considered as falling within the realm of AI and become instead just a useful general technique. AI is thus often regarded as the set of problems that have not yet been solved.”

Ray Kurzweil

Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005), p. 441

“This… was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.”

Ray Kurzweil

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)