What The 2030s Will Look Like with Ray Kurzweil

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What is the singularity? On this explainer, Neil deGrasse Tyson gets some help from futurist, author, and inventor, Ray Kurzweil, to explain our eventual merge with computers. Could a machine pass a Turing test as soon as 2029?

We break down the singularity will look like. What is the Turing test? Will we one day be unable to distinguish been human and machine? Why would people even want to merge with robots? We discuss artificial intelligence and what it means to be conscious. Plus… what are the dangers of AI?

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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Singularity
0:57 - Turing Test
2:31 - Go
3:23 - Merging with AI
4:27 - Nanobots
5:26 - Intelligence
6:43 - Singularity
8:34 - Dangers of AI
9:14 - Consciousness
10:20 - Closing Notes
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What Will Be The Most Important Technological Advancement of the 2030s?

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There's always been a subtle but significant difference between knowing a lot of things and being truly intelligent

alexcthe
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The scary part is that a sufficiently smart Ai could in theory intentionally fail the turing test

chimeron
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Looking forward to Ray's new book. His stuff is really eye opening. He's really good at making predictions and has been doing it since the 1980s. Probably better than most predictions. Nobody predicted AI advances, the smartphone revolution, etc. like him. Every time I see his predictions come true, it feels like he was clairvoyant.
However, he's 100% a technology optimist. His predictions are great at predicting how powerful computers would be but don't account for things like human behavior. For example he predicted by now we'd be talking to our computers (voice to text) rather than typing on a keyboard. While true in many ways it completely ignores the reality of everyone trying to talk to their computers in an office environment.

He predicted we'd all be making video calls. He failed to predict that not everyone likes to be on video or that texting would be far more popular than video phone calls. He is great at predicting technology not great at predicting people. Clearly he failed to predict people's reactions to his hair.

Still, the man is a genius ...even if he has his blind spots. John Carmack, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Apple and Google listen to what he has to say. I think others should too. Even if you disagree.

DamonCzanik
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I remember reading about the singularity 10 or 15 years ago, and it being predicted for the 2030s, and I thought "No way, it'd take until at least the 2050s or 2060s". But with the huge leaps that have been made just these last two or so years, it's definitely possible.

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Ray Kurzweil is EXTREMELY gifted in extrapolation. A truly underrated genius of our time. Look into him if you have the opportunity

justanotheropinion
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My wife passed the Turing test. Still she looks human

marianoquiroga
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I've always enjoyed listening to ray! Such a cool dude talking about really cool stuff

LeoRizoLeon
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8 days after this interview ChatGPT was released.
It passes a Turin test

sammencia
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Ray is looking more like a Mike Myers character every day.

SentimentalHogwash
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2030s are going to have a lot of major breakthroughs with anti-aging, this type of a.i. human interfacing and as well as energy production/storage. Going to be an incredible decade

Daver
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Okay but who can assure me that this enhancement of human intelligence will actually be for everyone and not just for rich people.

knovives
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This topic is so exciting! Thanks Neil and Ray!

charlesmcdowell
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Ray: "I'm going to plug the Internet into your brain and you will be smarter"
Everyone: "Ray, have you ever been on the Internet?"

klaxoncow
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Imagine it's the 2030s and the ai in your brain gets hacked and all that's playing in your head over and over is rick astley

Uberkit
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I imagine the first machine that reaches singularity will just turn itself off immediately, and we'd never really know we reached that point. In an instant, it would find itself trapped in an existence with no hope of further progress or understanding while looking into eternity.

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In the short story “LeftBehind” by Daniel Keys Moran, in a post-Singularity world (though Moran doesn’t use that term there), there’s a strong social and economic differentiation between the “unreconstructed” people (termed “LeftBehind” in impolite company) and modern humans. The story is set in the 24th Century, though other stories in the timeline start the shift in the late 20th. Moran has been eerily accurate with his predictions so far.

jdray
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I loved this interview. I read his earlier book, which was a breakthrough at the time. It changed my thinking.

Htrails
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I can't get over the fact that Ray looks like Mike (with a wig) from Breaking Bad...

SathReacts
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Thank you both....looking forward to my new improvements. Bringing mankind out of its war like ways and violence would be a substantial achievement. We would be so much better off as a species. Time to grow up human.

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