Ray Kurzweil: Quotes about intelligence

Ray Kurzweil is Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist. Explore interesting quotes on intelligence.
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“Once a computer achieves human intelligence it will necessarily roar past it.”

Ray Kurzweil

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

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“The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.”

Ray Kurzweil

Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

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“The Terminator' is not an impossibility. I think that symbolizes the downside of artificial intelligence … but technology has a big downside in general. There is a bigger downside to not pursuing it.”

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?id=14267712 (2011)

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“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

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“this will become the size of blood cells and we will be able to put intelligence inside of our bodies and brains to keep ourselves healthier.”

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)

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“Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent of capable type of entity on the planet.”

Ray Kurzweil

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

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