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Sometimes, a deeper order-a better fit to a purpose-is achieved through simplification rather than further increases in complexity. (Ray Kurzweil)
This interest in trends took on a life of its own, and I began to project some of them using what I call the Law of Accelerating Returns. View quote
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It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace. And that is what we will experience as we enter the twenty-first century. View quote
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Once a computer achieves human intelligence it will necessarily roar past it. View quote
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Ultimately this virtual reality will go inside the brain and then really will be fully merging with all of the senses. Virtual reality ultimately will have all of the features of real reality plus a lot more that you can chose from millions of virtual environments. You can be someone else, you don't have to pick the same boring body every time you can be different people and different situations and over time our biological bodies will become obsolete. We'll have many bodies and we'll look back at the idea of having one body and being dependent on just one biological body and having no back-up for a mind file as a very primitive time. View quote
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One of the advantages of being in the futurism business is that by the time your readers are able to find fault with your forecasts, it is too late for them to ask for their money back. View quote
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The Law of Time and Chaos: In a process, the time interval between salient events (that is, events that change the nature of the process, or significantly affect the future of the process) expands of contracts along with the amount of chaos. View quote
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Creating an avatar of this sort is one way of embodying that information in a way that human beings can interact with. It is inherently human to transcend limitations. View quote
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The Terminator' is not an impossibility. I think that symbolizes the downside of artificial intelligence ... but technology has a big downside in general. There is a bigger downside to not pursuing it. View quote
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I think all human beings are and should be fearful [of death, but realizing that death is a real tragedy. View quote
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We use one stage of technology to create the next stage, which is why technology accelerates, why it grows in power. (Ray Kurzweil)
Order... is information that fits a purpose. View quote
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You can certainly argue that, philosophically, that is not your father. That is a replica, but I can actually make a strong case that it would be more like my father than my father would be, were he to live. View quote
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What's not fully realized is that Moore's Law was not the first paradigm to bring exponential growth to computers. We had electromechanical calculators, relay-based computers, vacuum tubes, and transistors. Every time one paradigm ran out of steam, another took over. View quote
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I will be able to talk to this re-creation. Ultimately, it will be so realistic it will be like talking to my father. View quote
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I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything. View quote
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What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make. View quote
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When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence. View quote
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Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills. View quote
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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate. View quote
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Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. (Ray Kurzweil)
Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era. View quote
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A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous. View quote
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I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. View quote
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My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google. View quote
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