Ray Kurzweil
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.Collection: Intelligence
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.Collection: Computers
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.Collection: Technology
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Collection: Time
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.Collection: Computers
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.Collection: Intelligence
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.Collection: Computers
If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.Collection: Computers
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.Collection: Intelligence
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.Collection: Wisdom
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.Collection: Technology
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.Collection: Computers
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.Collection: Wisdom
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.Collection: Science
No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.
The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.
What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.
People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight.
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.
I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.
A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.
My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.
Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.
Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.
New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus.
Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.
By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.Collection: Technology
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.Collection: Light
The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.Collection: Past
Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.Collection: Educational
Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.Collection: Doe
Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.Collection: Mirrors
Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Collection: Too Much
There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.Collection: Technology
The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.Collection: Technology
Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.Collection: Phones
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.Collection: Loss