A response to Kurzweil / thoughts on the so- called Singularity / a response to virtual identities and artificial intelligence and sentience

Ray Kurzweil is an extraordinary man. He was the first to create text to speech technology which was extremely ahead of the times. Kurzweil wrote a book with various different predictions of the future of technology. 25 of his predictions came true! One of them being that he predicted a computer would defeat a world chess champion at chess by 1998, and in 1997 his prediction came . He believes that the person that will live to age 200 is living today. Our response to Kurzweil is that, he is incredible. We agree with his predictions and we have good reason because a lot of his predictions are very true. The ability for humans to live forever may not be in our lifetime but we are not against the thoughts that it is possible.

Thank you Ray Kurzweil for blowing our minds.

Technological Singularity Reaction

The idea of a technological singularity is a highly thought provoking concept.  Essentially, the thought is that technology is becoming exponentially better, and it will continue doing so until it creates an artificial super-intelligence, capable of surpassing all humans in intelligence.  There are basically two ideas as to where the technological singularity will bring us. The first idea is more of a utopian idea. What is suggested is that technology will become so advanced, that it will free humans from the traditional tasks that keep us alive.  Instead, people can focus more on the experiences of life rather than just living. The second idea suggests that the artificial super-intelligence may be a thing. Of course, there a varying degrees of bad theorized. It could be a sort of negative effect that just alters our wants and drives.  Or we could be enslaved by robots. Either way, Kurzweil and experts like him say that we will find out soon within the next twenty to fifty years.

The Singularity is Near

This book is built on the ideas introduced in Kurzweil’s previous books. These books are, “The Age of Intelligent Machines,” and “The Age of Intelligent Machines.” In this book, Kurzweil describes his law of accelerating returns which predicts an exponential increase in technologies such as , genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence. He says that once that the Singularity has been reached, machine intelligence will be infinitely more powerful than all human intelligence combined. The singularity is also the point where machines intelligence and human merge.