Human 2.0: Ray Kurzweil on the Coming Age of Radical Longevity and Superintelligence
5 key insights from The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI.
In a world grappling with unprecedented technological transformation, futurist Ray Kurzweil offers a bold roadmap for human evolution. The renowned inventor and AI pioneer - whose previous predictions have eerily come to pass - returns with a provocative new book, The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI. Challenging our understanding of progress, the book unveils a future where artificial intelligence doesn't just change our world, but fundamentally redefines what it means to be human. Scroll down to hear Ray offer up his key insights.
The 5 Key Insights:
1. Information technology is advancing at an exponential rate.
2. Artificial intelligence will reach and immediately soar past human-level intelligence by 2029.
3. We will solve aging in the next 5 to 10 years by applying AI to medicine.
4. AI is about to leap from transforming the digital world to transforming the physical world.
5. By 2045, we will reach the Singularity and expand our intelligence a millionfold.
Hear Ray’s predictions for when we wil merge with AI:
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