Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Ray Kurzweil
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American inventor Ray Kurzweil.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.
What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.
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.
Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.
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.
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.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
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.
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 You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
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.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.
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.
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.
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
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.
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.
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
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.
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.
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.
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.
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.
My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.
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.
Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.
We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.
The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.
Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.
As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.
The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.
The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.
By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.
Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.
There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.
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.
Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.
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.
Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.
The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.
Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.
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.
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