Ray Kurzweil

PBS Reports On Ray Kurzweil and The Singularity

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The technological singularity is indeed going mainstream. A few weeks ago it was the New York Times publishing an article called Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday. Today it is PBS. The first video is the full PBS report on some of the issues surrounding the singularity. The second video is part of Ray Kurweil‘s interview [...]

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Ray Kurzweil at the Daily Show with John Stewart

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This is a funny video of Ray Kurzweil on the Daily Show with John Stewart. While the video is anything but serious, some of the points it makes are. Warning: Rated at least PG 13. Viewer Discretion is Advised.

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Singularity Podcast: Barry Ptolemy on Transcendent Man

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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Right Click To Download In this edition of Singularity Podcast I was privileged to do a phone interview with Barry Ptolemy, the director and producer of Transcendent Man. Barry was very generous to make time in his busy schedule and share his thoughts on the making of the [...]

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Ray Kurzweil’s Review of Avatar

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Some time ago I posted a few trailers, interviews and short docs together with a brief review of AVATAR. Today I happened to fall onto a very detailed and highly critical review written by Ray Kurzweil. I thought that it is worthwhile to republish Ray’s review in its totality for it does raise many good [...]

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Can you TRANSCEND biology and live long enough to live forever?

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In 2004, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, MD, published Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Their groundbreaking book marshaled thousands of scientific studies to make the case that new developments in medicine and technology will allow us to radically extend our life expectancies and slow down the aging process. In 2009, Ray and [...]

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Ray Kurzweil on Brain-Computer Interfaces

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A video of Ray Kurzweil discussing the future of BCI (Brain-Computer Interfaces) at a workshop at the X-Prize lab in MIT, January 2010. This workshop was co-sponsored by Singularity University.

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Top 10 Singularitarians of All Time

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The technological singularity is the event or sequence thereof likely to occur at or after the birth of AI, especially when Artificial Intelligence surpasses biological i.e. human intelligence. Since it is human intelligence which, in one way or another, is still the primary cause and ultimate mover behind AI, there are a number of people [...]

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Dawn of the Kill-Bots: the Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Arming of AI (part 5)

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Part 5: The Future of (Military) AI — Singularity While being certainly dangerous for humans, especially the ones that are specifically targeted by the kill-bots, arming machines is not on its own a process that can threaten the reign of homo sapiens in general. What can though is the fact that it is occurring within [...]

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Singularity University: Ray Kurzweil’s Opening Address

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TechCrunch, Nov. 13, 2009 Over the last week, Singularity University has been holding an Executive Program with the goal of preparing executives for the “imminent disruption and opportunities resulting from exponentially accelerating technologies.”

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