The Singularity Is Nearer (Ray Kurzweil)

IRL, TL;DR but I expect some people here will be interested …

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there is no doubt that the bionic man will be the future…

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I’m looking forward to some technological upgrades. We’ve been running Homo Sapiens V1.0 for too long.

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So hard to get a read on the time frame for this. I read that massive AI induced changes will occur in 5-10 years, but then I see ChatGPT give answers to questions that show chat gpt is clueless.

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Indeed, aging is devolving. I’m ready for an upgrade.

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Ray Kurzweil rejects death. The 76-year-old scientist and engineer has spent much of his time on earth arguing that humans can not only take advantage of yet-to-be-invented medical advances to live longer, but also ultimately merge with machines, become hyperintelligent, and stick around indefinitely. Nonetheless, death cast a shadow over my interview with Kurzweil this spring. Just minutes before we met, we both learned that Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize–winning psychologist and one of Kurzweil’s intellectual jousting partners, had suffered that fate.

Read the full Wired Article: If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud

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