Quotes by Ray Kurzweil

By the time we get to the 2040s, well be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change thats singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

If you write a blog post, youve got something to say; youre not just creating words and synonyms. Wed like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.

Im working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

When you talk to a human in 2035, youll be talking to someone thats a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. Its certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think well appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didnt know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

“Hoewel we de illusie hebben dat we beelden met hoge resolutie ontvangen van onze ogen, stuurt de oogzenuw slechts contouren en aanwijzingen over interessante punten in ons blikveld naar het brein. We hallucineren eigenlijk de wereld vanuit ons corticale geheugen.”