Ray Kurzweil: After the Singularity, We'll All Be Robots

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[AdrenalineRuh]

"I would actually maintain that there is no scientific way to demonstrate that an entity is conscious, it is only apparent to itself. " - Mind blowing statement

[chadtebbitt]

We are Borg, Resistance is FUTILE ...

[marziobalducci]

if i die before the Singularity I desire to be recreated from my photos and informations

[MrGWfanboy]

We're already robots in a sense that we rely so much on machines today. Machines don't necessarily have to be apart of us to be considered a robot, do they?

[mkerimi]

Ray, you have been my idol for many years now.If you see this, I want you to know that when immortality becomes available, I vote that you will become the first one to undergo these health treatments.

[SinerAthin]

It also raises an important philosophical question:

Will a 'sentient' AI truly be sentient like you and me, or will it just be a complex code that may act as though it was sentient?

[SinerAthin]

How do you know a robot 'thinks' the same way as we do, or is just a more complex computer algorithm?

The Singularity will come sooner than the time when we'll be able to replicate the technology our own brain use.

[kareninwald]

The driving force behind Kurtweil's notion of the Singularity is his fear of death. Kurtweill disdains humanity because he views us as weak and mortal. So he seeks to create a machine that will live forever. Ray Kurweil does not view Life as a miracle, he views it as a collection of "23, 000 outdated software." Fear has made Ray Kurtwweil mad.

[AspiringPotato]

The thing about Kurzweill's ideas is that they are so damn vague. "We will mishmash with the robots." Geez no wonder I loved this shit when I was an awkward teenager.

[Zombie_Burger]

We already are robots to a degree.
We are mechanical, electrical and Chemical and biological.
We are that which we wish to create.

[DonJohnson]

You don't find it a tad bit interesting that EVERY generation of believers thought that this big revelation...."soon the proofs will be undeniable and the time of exercising our free will to turn to god will be gone"...was going to happen during their lifetime?

[MatthewBendyna]

Scarcity is a lack of resources. Economy exists because of this. It's a way to keep the masses from falling into anarchy by fighting over the necessary goods to survive. It's a way to distribute goods to the people in an attempt to prevent chaos from erupting. If technology takes away scarcity, if it creates an abundance of all necessary resources, and it has the potential to do so, then the economy will become obsolete. Yes, those used to power might try to fight it, but economy would disappear

[LoverofLiszt]

When does a robot become human? I´d say; when it have emotions that effect it and causes it to reason itself into an illogical conclusion.

[rrave]

Is there a longer video from this guy? I could fall asleep to his voice...

[TheBlackBX]

And.... the people who say that they understand memory size in the human mind remind me of scientist pre-dark matter pre-dark energy when all they assumed it was nothing. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

[DapperDragon]

Imagine even further progress that will occur over those 1, 000 years anyways. By the time you would be 1, 000, they could possibly have treatments for making people live 10, 000 and onward! Minus having some deadly accident that accidentally may kill you, if the tech. moved at a fast enough rate, you could live indefinitely. Or at least until you weren't able to receive treatments anymore.

[waltonwb]

Kurzweil is a genius. That said, I get a subtle, frantic "I don't wanna die!" vibe from him based on seeing him speak, reading some of his books and yes, the fact that he ingests hundreds of pills a day in the vain hope for immortality.

I think most people fear death; that's not my gripe with him. I just get the sense that some of his prognostications are more wishful thinking than cold analytical predictions. The main thrust of his arguments makes sense; I just don't trust his timeline.

[blackops]

the purpose is to expand your life to experience the thing you would not be able to in a normal life spand and as for my opinion it is actually just realism as i am a realist. and let me ask you a question as we are now do you really believe we can get better by ourselves?

[OttoEdrick]

@ApertureScience27 you cant just ignore the man in the room and change the metphors. Searle describes two entities in one room because he is illustrating the point that no true understanding is taking place. What we're really debating is the definition of "understanding".

[TheBlackBX]

On top of that, not to be overly dramatic, the mass school shootings, and random acts of violence are exactly the reasons why science does not understand the mind. If they did, they could predict these things and neutralize them before they happen. If science could figure out how to neutralize crime, greed, hate, jealousy, yatta yatta, then we would be on our way to mastering/re-mastering the human mind into a machine.