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Raymond C. Kurzweil , né le 12 février 1948 dans l'arrondissement new-yorkais de Queens, est un auteur, ingénieur, chercheur, et futurologue américain. Il est créateur de plusieurs entreprises pionnières dans le domaine de la reconnaissance optique de caractères , de la synthèse et de la reconnaissance vocales, et des synthétiseurs électroniques. Il est également l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur la santé, l'intelligence artificielle, la prospective et la futurologie. Professeur au MIT, titulaire du prix américain de la technologie, il est décrit comme une « machine cérébrale ultime » dans un article de Forbes et comme « un véritable génie » dans un article du Wall Street Journal. Il est depuis 2012 directeur de l'ingénierie chez Google. Wikipedia  

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“Très peu nombreux seront les gens qui refuseront d'être amélioré par la technologie.”

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Raymond Kurzweil: Citations en anglais

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

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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.”

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

“Ultimately this virtual reality will go inside the brain and then really will be fully merging with all of the senses. Virtual reality ultimately will have all of the features of real reality plus a lot more that you can chose from millions of virtual environments. You can be someone else, you don’t have to pick the same boring body every time you can be different people and different situations and over time our biological bodies will become obsolete. We’ll have many bodies and we’ll look back at the idea of having one body and being dependent on just one biological body and having no back-up for a mind file as a very primitive time”

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Transcendent Man (2009)

“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

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

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

“Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.”

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“We live in a three-dimensional world, and our brains are organized in three dimensions, so we might as well compute in three dimensions. …Right now, chips, even though they're very dense, are flat.”

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

“The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.”

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

“One of the advantages of being in the futurism business is that by the time your readers are able to find fault with your forecasts, it is too late for them to ask for their money back.”

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Ray Kurzweil: The Library Journal, The virtual book revisited http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-virtual-book-revisited

“The Law of Time and Chaos: In a process, the time interval between salient events (that is, events that change the nature of the process, or significantly affect the future of the process) expands of contracts along with the amount of chaos.”

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

“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.”

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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 (August 9, 2011)
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)

“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.”

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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)

“Neither noise nor information is predictable.”

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

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

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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)

“We use one stage of technology to create the next stage, which is why technology accelerates, why it grows in power.”

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

“Order… is information that fits a purpose.”

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

“You can certainly argue that, philosophically, that is not your father. That is a replica, but I can actually make a strong case that it would be more like my father than my father would be, were he to live.”

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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)

“What's not fully realized is that Moore's Law was not the first paradigm to bring exponential growth to computers. We had electromechanical calculators, relay-based computers, vacuum tubes, and transistors. Every time one paradigm ran out of steam, another took over.”

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

“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.”

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

“I will be able to talk to this re-creation. Ultimately, it will be so realistic it will be like talking to my father.”

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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)

“To this day I remain convinced of this basic philosophy: no matter what quandries we face… there is an idea that can enable us to prevail.”

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

“The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating.”

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

“The twentieth century was like twenty years' worth of change at today's rate of change.”

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

“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.”

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

“So What's Left? Let's consider where we are, circa early 2030s. We've eliminated the hearth, lungs, red and white blood cells, platelets, pancreas, thyroid and all the hormone-producing organs, kidneys, bladder, liver, lower esophagus, stomach, small intestines, large intestines, and bowel. What we have left at this point is the skeleton, skin, sex organs, sensory organs, mouth and upper esophagus, and brain.”

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Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005), p. 307

“The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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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)

“The basic feasibility of communicating in both directions between electronic devices and biological neurons has already been demonstrated.”

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

“A primary reason that evolution—of life-forms or technology—speeds up is that it builds on its own increasing order.”

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

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