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Ray Kurzweil presenting via teleconference at COSM 2019

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 30, 2019

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
AlphaGo Zero, Andy Kessler, Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, COSM, Danielle (novel), Digital Immortality, George Gilder, Google, immortality, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, Singularity Is Near (book), transhumanism, Turing Test}

Tech pioneer Ray Kurzweil: We Will Merge with Computers by 2045

_{For computers, “Even the very best human is just another notch to pass,” he told the COSM Technology Summit} _{Denyse O'Leary

October 30, 2019

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Philosophy of Mind}

Advocates point to the success of Kurzweil’s past predictions as evidence that his Singularity is indeed Near, as his 2005 book predicts or Nearer, as his forthcoming one (June 2020) does. But questions bubbled to the surface.

Wall Street Journal columnist to Big Tech: You are doomed

_{Companies like Google and Facebook aren’t monsters, says Andy Kessler, but each nourishes the seeds of its own destruction} _{Denyse O'Leary

October 25, 2019

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Business and Finance, Global Technology}

Kessler told his audience at the COSM National Technology Summit that Big Tech companies are so vulnerable that, for legal reasons, the United States is the only safe place for their headquarters.

Will Government Intervention Solve High-Tech’s Problems?

_{At the COSM summit in October, a Wall Street Journal columnist will make the case for no} _{News

September 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Andy Kessler, Inside View columnist at The Wall Street Journal “on technology and markets and where they intersect with culture,” is a skeptic of Big Regulation. He has seen the issues from a variety of positions, having been both a software designer and an investment broker.