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Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

~Ray Kurzweil

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Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

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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.

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Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.

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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 You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

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I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Inventor

Born: February 12th, 1948

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