The 80+ Ray Kurzweil Quotes

With The Increasingly Important Role Of Intelligent Machines In All Phases Of Our Lives--military, Medical, Economic And Financial, Political--it Is Odd To Keep Reading Articles With Titles Such As Whatever Happened To Artificial Intelligence? This Is A Phenomenon That Turing Had Predicted: That Machine Intelligence Would Become So Pervasive, So Comfortable, And So Well Integrated Into Our Information-based Economy That People Would Fail Even To Notice It.

I Consider Myself An Inventor, Entrepreneur, And Author.

The Software Programs That Make Our Body Run ... Were Evolved In Very Different Times. We'd Like To Actually Change Those Programs. One Little Software Program, Called The Fat Insulin Receptor Gene, Basically Says, 'hold Onto Every Calorie, Because The Next Hunting Season May Not Work Out So Well.' That Was In The Interests Of The Species Tens Of Thousands Of Years Ago. We'd Like To Turn That Program Off.

Inventing Is A Lot Like Surfing: You Have To Anticipate And Catch The Wave At Just The Right Moment.

My View Is That Consciousness, The Seat Of "personalness," Is The Ultimate Reality, And Is Also Scientifically Impenetrable. In Other Words, There Is No Scientific Test One Can Postulate That Would Definitively Prove Its Existence In Another Entity. We Assume That Other Biological Human Persons, At Least Those Who Are At Least Acting Conscious, Are Indeed Conscious. But This Too Is An Assumption, And This Shared Human Consensus Breaks Down When We Go Beyond Human Experience (e.g., The Debate On Animal Consciousness, And By Extension Animal Rights).

It Is Doubling Now Every Two Years. Doubling Every Two Years Means Multiplying By 1,000 In 20 Years. At That Rate We'll Meet 100 Percent Of Our Energy Needs In 20 Years.

My Mission At Google Is To Develop Natural Language Understanding With A Team And In Collaboration With Other Researchers At Google.

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.

The Telephone Is Virtual Reality In That You Can Meet With Someone As If You Are Together, At Least For The Auditory Sense.

I'm Working On Artificial Intelligence. Actually, Natural Language Understanding, Which Is To Get Computers To Understand The Meaning Of Documents.

There Is One Brain Organ That Is Optimised For Understanding And Articulating Logical Processes And That Is The Outer Layer Of The Brain, Called The Cerebral Cortex. Unlike The Rest Of The Brain, This Relatively Recent Evolutionary Development Is Rather Flat, Only About 0.32 Cm (0.12 In) Thick And Includes A Mere 6 Million Neurons. This Elaborately Folded Organ Provides Us With What Little Competence We Do Possess For Understanding What We Do And Who We Do It.

A Singularitarian Is Someone Who Understands The Singularity And Has Reflected On Its Meaning For His Or Her Own Life.