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Ray Kurzweil presenting via teleconference at COSM 2019

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 30, 2019

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Philosophy of Mind

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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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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.

Will we become mere apps of our smart machines?

_{At COSM, Ray Kurzweil will offer a glimpse of his foreseen Singularity where we merge with superintelligent computers} _{News
September 1, 2019

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He believes that the merger will eventually make the whole universe intelligent. Kurzweil’s critics believe that the superintelligent computers he needs can’t exist. If the critics are correct, we have misread the AI revolution.