Singularity University is not a degree granting institution. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Singularity Hub. Topics Experts Events Videos. Singularity Group Singularity Community. Ray Kurzweil. Co-Founder and Chancellor, Singularity University Ray Kurzweil is one of the world leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions.
Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, Ray was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc.
Among his many honors, Ray received the Technical Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in the field of music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty-one honorary Doctorates, and honors from three U.
He is Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity University and a Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding. From this Author. Raya Bidshahri - Apr 12, One of the most exciting and frightening outcomes of technological advancement is the potential to merge our minds with machines. If achieved, this would profoundly boost our cognitive capabilities.
More importantly, however, it could Read more. Everyone knows that when machines become smarter than human beings, they tend to take over the world. What science fiction depicts as the singularity — at which point a single brilliant AI enslaves humanity — is just that: fiction. Today we have billions. For Kurzweil, the singularity is an opportunity for humankind to improve.
He envisions the same technology that will make AIs more intelligent giving humans a boost as well. They may not yet be inside our bodies, but, by the s, we will connect our neocortex, the part of our brain where we do our thinking, to the cloud.
Kurzweil expounded on how this technology could improve human lives. A previous version of this article stated that Kurzweil predicted the singularity by , rather than the date an AI will pass a valid Turing test.
Care about supporting clean energy adoption? Find out how much money and planet! By signing up through this link , Futurism. In a communication to Futurism, Kurzweil states: is the consistent date I have predicted for when an AI will pass a valid Turing test and therefore achieve human levels of intelligence. Share This Article. More on Future Society.
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