Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
From: Futurism - 03/15/2017
By: Dom Galeon and Christianna Reedy

Google director of engineering and ACM Fellow Ray Kurzweil (who received the
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for 1978) this week at the SXSW Conference in
Austin, TX, predicted the technological singularity - the emergence of
human-level computer intelligence - will arrive by 2029. Kurzweil also
dismissed concerns that a single artificial intelligence will dominate the
human race, and said he envisions the event as an opportunity for mankind to
improve. Kurzweil notes implanting computers within human brains and linking
them to the cloud already has begun, "and it's going to accelerate." He
predicts a computer-neocortex connection will make people smarter, and he
expects this will enable people "to exemplify all the things that we value in
humans to a greater degree." Kurzweil also expects to see the invention of
technology that can be implanted in the brain as a memory enhancement in the
2030s. "Ultimately, it will affect everything," he says. "We're going to be
able to meet the physical needs of all humans."

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