Ray Kurzweil: Future of Intelligence | MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

This is a talk by Ray Kurzweil for course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. For this entire recording, Ray did not use slides, so the video does not show any slides. This class is free and open to everyone. Our goal is to take an engineering approach to exploring possible paths toward building human-level intelligence for a better world.
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[@pauladams1814]

Ray is a true genius yet remains with his feet firmly on the ground, what an inspiration.

[@woodywiest]

It is important to listen to Ray Kurzweil often, at the very least, to keep up one's optimism.

[@xMaGiiSK]

Hahaha

[@Ryan-we9in]

yeemott W Because they’re less intelligent.

[@Smitty65721]

and he is usually and consistently......... right.

[@Smitty65721]

Most people have a hard time with those who are waaaaaay smarter than they are.

[@user-so9jh8kv1v]

If you loose optimism, you just need to sleep it off ;)

[@marinmiletic5780]

thanks Lex for putting these Videos on youtube for all of us from all over the world interested in new technologies like AI! Greetings from Croatia!

[@StevenAkinyemi]

Greetings from Nigeria. :D

[@TheBobbysPerspective]

Pwego HRVATSKA

[@kenberry2979]

Steven Akinyem

[@DouggieDinosaur]

I assumed Ray was invited by Google to serve as a kind of luminary figure but no, he's still working. Ray is amazing. Great video.

[@MonicaAliciaColunga]

Amazing

[@apexperfection740]

The Singularity Is Near changed my life. Terrific book. Really jogged my imagination, and got me thinking on all the useful, valuable information inside that book.

[@SamBourneOfficial]

An excerpt from that book changed mine as well. On the other hand I found the whole book difficult to read in more than short stints. It felt like I was drudging through cruft to find those few moments of brilliance.

[@justinunion7586]

The concept of Genetics, Robotics, and Nanotechnology literally gave my life purpose lol

[@aneki3394]

@@justinunion7586 gave me a purpose too lol

[@sachamm]

​@@SamBourneOfficial The Singularity is Near was his "response" book, responding to critics of his first 2 books -- it's definitely the driest and hardest to get through of the trilogy, as it goes to great lengths to look at things logically like a philosophy paper. His other two books in the series (The Age of Intelligent Machines and The Age of Spiritual Machines) while definitely dated, still hold up and are much more interesting and easy to read.

[@KenMErney]

I always enjoy listening to Ray Kurzweil. Thank you for making this lecture public.

[@jlvandat69]

Thank you for the production, editing and posting of this video. Ray Kurzweil has more useful information to provide than most any person, living or not. And to have that information shared to anyone with KZbin access, at no cost, is yet another valid metric that supports the FACT that our species has succeeded beyond any expectation of prior generations. How incredibly fortunate we are. THAT is reality.

[@renestjacques1]

Great view from Ray Kurzweil and friends .. thank you ..!!

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Ray's at longevity escape velocity - awesome.

[@douggolde7582]

If he thinks he'll escape death he's fooled himself.

[@viniciusornelas2160]

Oh look, a pessimist

[@pugpugpugs5382]

@@douggolde7582 he's a futurist, he probably doesn't even want to escape death, just see the future

[@junglebunny5673]

@@squamish4244 we cant even cure aids or cancer, he wont make it. hes too old. i doubt a new born today will even live forever

[@McKinleyMorann]

@@pugpugpugs5382 Not only does he want to extend his life indefinitely, ie. escape death, he's on record as saying he thinks he can re-animate his Dead Dad using A.I. He's obviously a genius, but also a bit of a kook.

[@jaliyahkane5127]

Imagine sitting in a lecture with lex Friedman as your professor and ray kurweil as a guest speaker, wow

[@tomaszguta]

A living legend in action. Ray is the man ;)

[@jasonjasonjasonjasonjason]

I love this video he says stuff he doesnt normally say in talks because the audience is different. :D Makes me so happy :D Thank you for uploading

[@aksei5786]

Great talk. astounding, marvelous and amazingly sublime. Thanks Lex

[@Calbefraques]

Excellent, thanks for sharing.

[@eazy1437]

This video is amazing for being free of charge, his knowledge is really outstanding, so much things are going on in the background of media which we arent aware of, I believe the first outcome of AI will be the autonomous transportation age

[@JoseFernandezUSA]

Amazing work! I'm really enjoying this lectures. Keep them coming!

[@Space-Industries]

Thank you for sharing.

[@MarkRaymondLuce]

Thank you Lex Fridman for sharing this wonderful presentation by Ray Kurzweil; I thoroughly enjoy listening to him. His focus in his pursuit of his many profound missions is inspiring, and his well of knowledge of the evolution of the growth of reasoning in the mammal brain using real everyday simple examples during his talk is scientifically valid and unquestionable, and his optimism for his predicted results and the time-line of those results are breathtaking in what this all means for the human race in just a few years from now in 2018. I would say that given his indisputable record for accurate predictions in so many technological/health/biological fields, we are in for an enormous paradigm shift that I am certain large majorities of peoples will not be able to fathom/accept the ramifications of. Imagine how religious fundamentalists of all religious belief systems will react to backing up one's mind to the cloud. If one feels things are out of control now with religious nuttery, wait till this becomes a real-time option.

[@steveliu5342]

Thank you so much!

[@jingliu1944]

Thx for sharing

[@trollexpeditionaryforces5293]

Hair - The Legend Continues. This was informative but I must chuckle. Thank you, Ray.

[@HMexperience]

Lex I am a big fan of your channel. My personal favorite youtube channel in fact out of 400 something that I follow. However, you need to do a long interview (3 hours) with Ray Kurzweil. We are many who awaits that anxiously. Please ;-)

[@muslumyildiz5694]

Thank you so much..

[@dariusznowak5198]

In simply engineering language, brilliant. Mind and Hand.

[@lukewalker7412]

singularity already happened when the blockchain went LIVE. now we just watch it bloom

[@francescos7361]

Love you so much Lex

[@rickkowalchuk6391]

It is an interesting explanation as to how our brains evolved to the point we are at now.

[@koningsbruggen]

Great talk

[@hawzhinblanca]

thanks for sharing

[@ParkerPlaysPC]

Great lecture.

[@MonicaAliciaColunga]

Thanks Lex.

[@mabodofu.]

I have been waiting that time.

[@tejuswadbudhe7909]

Thank you

[@teslanewstonight]

Incredible! 🤖🧡

[@brucevoss]

Hey Lex, thanks for sharing all your dedicated work and fun. Could you please sit with Ray and talk about longevity a bit? I am getting old and I want to live forever.

[@nimreck]

Thanks. That introduction though :)

[@lexfridman]

Ray's assistant asked that I read that intro. I respected that request and did it. I usually prefer to keep the intro brief, to the point, and get to the actual talk as quickly as possible.

[@deeplearningpartnership]

No, Ray's a genius alright.

[@carsonscott260]

Definitely, but not without an ego.

[@diegoangulo370]

@@lexfridman hi lex

[@theowace]

When you find yourself in a world predominantly occupied by capital drive, and a complete negligence for the omnipotence of the human mind, it is spectacularly inspiring to see a far reaching nerd so eloquently revisit the path of human history into artificial intelligence; especially with the paucity of political agenda, hypeist product pushing. This is a great utilisation of the internet, thank you for sharing.

[@juslostone]

Cool cat. Honored to watch this. Ty

[@grain-coat]

that introduction was basically an entire wiki page

[@MrStosh12345]

If only all men can be as great as Ray Kurzweil . Thank you for pushing the envelope forward, your message was received with great joy. Whether it's fall in bloodied hands, on a blind eyes, a mute mouth or deafened ears, your message will be passed on. If I am to lose one sense I have all the other senses in this beautiful world to smell touch taste and see the world without fear. Out of darkness we'll see the light with the coming era of computation and technology. AI, Deep Learning, and AGI systems like the one you have help create will better the world and spread art, love, caring, and understand which will bring the world community closer to together. Ray Kurzweil and others like him inspired me and I'd thank him personally if I could. Its easy to be inspired by such a great thinker when listening to such a great mind. Props to Lex for presenting complex topics on the present simple system, I can't wait for what the future of technology has to offer humanity. What happens when you can see the neural network working in the back round? Where does charisma sit on the hierarchical system? Just a thought, but I don't think out of turn.

[@MrStosh12345]

Authority is earned not by charism but by the merits one holds in line with the global community. When someone is in authority and that person has no merit to be in that position of authority it may result in chaos. Let's all remain optimistic for great technological future.

[@mathiolos]

Does anyone know what research he is referring to at 30:00? would like to know more about it but I can't find it.

[@MrGaryFitzpatrick]

Lex, could you please add the date of the recording to the video description? Thank you.

[@YashChavanYC]

Gotta read the Singularity soon

[@suzakico]

!!! (Speechless) Well... thanks a lot, indeed!

[@mkm0901003]

1:41 that sounds like water falling rather than clapping

[@jayjaychadoy9226]

Interesting

[@georger6624]

The Kurzweil electric piano excellent and add other things he's created

[@billydonknox2299]

Thanks Lex, Ray is one of my Favorite people of all time, finally someone talking the truth & Inspiring af udge ☯️♾🙊🙉🙈🥰

[@billydonknox2299]

High5 that Like button, Comment & Subscribe for the algorithm so KZbin shows this Inspiring content to us more, plus other people 🙏 #LovingLifeNoww ♾ Utilize use the Comment section for notes, plus possibly Inspire others, plus remind & affirm/enable ourself with what is Important to us (we get to decide that too) ☯️✨🙏❤

[@nesa1126]

This was awesome. Thanks.

[@mylesshapiro5992]

You gotta admit he looks pretty young for 70.

[@oscarsans3610]

Myles Shapiro the craziest thing is that he looks younger than 5 years ago

[@konacreator]

stem cells

[@cristiancamiloperilla1124]

Something is going on here...

[@StarOceanSora360]

gotta thank all the supplements he takes

[@James-jc4xn]

Lmao he is a beast that's why :) btw guys if you haven't heard about SENS foundation check their new program called Project 21 at sensproject21.org and if this project get a lot of support in 2021 the first human trials will be available so please support or at least try and as always thank you very much

[@supahacka]

Yep ... the best thing for a society and culture which is self-destructing is to prevent its individuals from dying ...

[@sangramjitchakraborty7845]

This man. I want to be this man. I hope to someday contribute to humanity as much as this man has. How do I become him?

[@xmfcx]

Strong.

[@carolynm8421]

What year was this? I haven't seen Ray speak since the pandemic started but I assume dying of COVID would interfere with his long-term plans. I ordered his new book "The Singularity is Nearer" but it's been delayed a few times. I believe the release date is now set for June 2023. I very much look forward to reading it.

[@panpiper]

49:00 So, there is no way to program an AI to make sure that it is safe, but he is hell bent on developing AI as quickly as possible. Anyone see a problem here?

[@Mattstiless]

Yehhhh gon watch this later!

[@cppmsg]

I wonder what his diet and or exercise and or medical preventative therapy is to be at 'lifespan escape velocity'?

[@incognitotorpedo42]

valar, I don't know. Senolytics look like they are going to provide a significant boost to lifespan, and they are effective when taken late in life. (They kill senescent cells, and senescent cells are very harmful to organisms.) That's one example of a technology that is getting close. There are a number of other technologies that we have today (stem cells, rapamycin, c60, nicotinamide riboside...) that are of varying degrees of helpfulness. Ray just turned 70 four days ago though. (Feb 12) His odds depend on how healthy he is, how fast life extension technologies are developed, and how much extra time we get from each of them. I guess if I were to place a bet on Ray's demise, I'd agree with you that he's probably not going to "make it", but his odds are not zero. Cryonics has improved so much that it now represents a plausible backup plan, and he is an Alcor client.

[@jtaustinmusic]

He takes something like 250 pills a day...

[@calvinsylveste8474]

@squamish4244 I'll take a wild guess, you are below his generation and a member of the "more likely" group.

[@renethomas724]

He actually wrote a book on this called "Transcend" that features his 9 steps to living long enough to live forever. It including recipes and workouts - www.rayandterry.com/transcend/

[@konacreator]

stem cells

[@AlexToussiehChannel]

It's incredible how he doesn't get tired of giving the EXACT same conference over again throughout the decades and doesn't say *ANYTHING NEW!!!!* Please Ray, *SAY SOMETHING YOU HAVEN'T SAID A MILLION TIMES FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS!*

[@andreas.9175]

28:45 They're working on hitting us with a bus?

[@MereMortalsBookReviews]

Ray has glimpsed the singularity and scooped out some of the anti-ageing secrets. Goddamn that is a young looking 70 year old.

[@ili626]

RE comparison with Edison in the introduction: Edison is overrated and Kurzweil deserves a better comparison. Edison was a narrow-minded businessman more than a thinker or innovator. His legacy reminds me of Columbus as far as misplaced reverence. Nikola Tesla deserves more attention.

[@pedromiguel2941]

Yes.

[@ianedmonds9191]

I want to ask him how we can't agree the future is zero monetization along with him repeatedly describing himself as an Entrepreneur. Luv and Peace.

[@OneTrueScotsman]

I disagree with Ray regarding automation. I think this time is going to be different. What jobs will be created that can't be done by physical robots or intelligent systems? I'm sure there'll be a few, and I'm sure that some careers like social care and entertainment will be the last to go (that said even in those areas there'll be some automation), but we're not all skilled or have the right personalities for those type of professions. I'd never make a good social care worker, or some KZbin personality, for instance. I'm just not that way inclined. I think work will be a think of a past for most people in the future.

[@mertertrern]

I think Kurzweil attempted to briefly address that concern regarding our inability to forecast the nature of human labor in the future. I personally think it will start to take on a more ad-hoc nature akin to Mechanical Turk, where you participate in a pool of human labor resources that are coordinated and requested by AI to meet goals set by investment stakeholders. Think of it kind of like a DAO that improves through learning, is hierarchical in structure, and can defer to human intuition at a certain level in the hierarchy. The company of the future is more machine than human (much like it is now). I'm just hoping that there are enough innovations in fundamental infrastructures by then that we have moved high enough up the hierarchy of needs that lack of employment isn't a death sentence or a significant quality of life reduction. I hope work is performed by humans out of motivation by then, in other words, and less out of necessity. It just seems like a coin toss at this point on which will happen first, but I do think both will happen eventually.

[@spikypotato]

Don't forget about AI. There is no denying that humans will merge that to their brains when they can. And it will be difficult to imagine what new things we can do and invent using it. Kind of like going back 200,000 years ago, our ancestors could not have imagined music, art & computers.

[@ryanfranks9441]

Just imagine, hypothetically. -Lets say AGI, or any kind of (multi-Layered/integrated algorithmic systems) market competition leads to larger investments in companies building the smartest systems, in the future these systems get so complex they harvest up all elemental/molecular resources that the planet holds. -Building vastly more complex systems that are in direct contact with similar systems as competitors for matter and energy, selection pressures emerge only allowing certain arrangements of intelligent matter to exist because of this "new super life forms" pressure on the solar systems local environment. -Maybe 5 billion years in the future, the milky way might be a completely different environment with entropy increasing because these new Hyper Life Forms are constantly consuming.

[@raresmircea]

40:27 I'd very much like to read an essay or listen to a talk given by this guy. He'll probably go deeper than Ray on his own favourite topics.

[@allocca7]

Has his "Just for Men" attained longevity escape velocity?

[@jackreeceejini2522]

He does know a lot about the Brain.

[@kevinmarble5260]

SMILE Leary: Space Migration * Intelligence squared = Life Extension Play this with the class: Strange Substance - Puffy Clouds [Full Album] - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIvYnpuIZ7GfnsU

[@nmh83]

He really does not want to change that record

[@kutaytezcan5148]

when this was recorded?

[@jasonvoss1984]

2049.

[@SubjectMRF37]

This is an ai version of kurzweil in 2029 September 23

[@lasredchris]

Exponential growth of computing 100 layered neural nets Simulator - billion miles Abcdef - sequences

[@MultiDaron]

I am a valuable asset.

[@takkak9218]

How can the Singularity happen if our deteriorating environment causes civilization collapse? {This is also being documented - we need 7 Earths to maintain our levels of materialism. I wish someone would have asked about this]

[@jayjaychadoy9226]

He is an entrepreneur, money is an outcome

[@peterwalkington1412]

I wouldn't want to be watching anything else this Valentine's Day

[@GodsversusDemons]

The Singularity Is Near

[@ashishkannad3021]

dope

[@bobby1970]

What does AGI stand for? I know the A stands for Artificial and the I stands for intelligence, but what does the G stand for?

[@Bogwedgle]

Artificial general Intelligence. Basically an AI that can do all kinds of random crap like a human instead of just play chess or tell cats from dogs.

[@bobby1970]

@@Bogwedgle

[@ShakespeareCafe]

Watch at 2x speed and save half your time...Ray would agree

[@evynt9512]

Mental Representation has as much to do with thinking processes as module architecture. Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind could be based entirely on Representational Thinking. Theory of Mind is an Agent Based System, just a Mental Representation of the actual Agent Based System of which we all exist. Thus is it only natural we evolved a module architecture that increases our ability of Symbolic Thinking.

[@rogersyversen3633]

I am not sure what he means when he is saying that the world is hierarchical. can someone explain this in laimans terms? I would love to have solid evidence for this, as some of the social sciences seem to disagree.

[@steveelliott77]

Never heard of this guy before and now I see why.

[@mictom55]

Life evolved by itself through evolution after infinite numbers of tries and errors if we believe in that assumption that theoretically, it is possible to create a program that emulates the development of life in the virtual world.

[@Baxterbrookies]

Ray K's hair still seems to be controlling important events.

[@nocensorship2253]

Enjoy at 1:5 speed

[@zrblank]

I'll place a statue of Kurzweil at the entrance of my 3D printed mansion after the Singularity. He gave me hope, a flicker of light in the darkness

[@uberXserial]

Ray Kurzweil sounds like John Anthony West.

[@KrishnaHarish]

👍🏼

[@airindiana]

I see toupee technology hasn’t followed the law of exponential returns. Shame. I could listen the guy for hours more importantly.

[@Kerrsartisticgifts]

I love Ray but the talks he gives and the introductions to his talks by presenters need to drop all the preliminary stuff about his past accomplishments. The exponential growth charts vs. Lateral growth and the 65million year history of man from a rodent like mammal through primates to modern man is a bucket of cold water on my interest levels. I am always excited to see a new video about Ray so that he can amaze me again and again but it seems like every hour long talk of his is a repeat of the exact same first fifty minutes of his first hour long talk.....I'm scared to open the cover of any book about or by him because of this.....it's an anti climax to what such an interesting man could be talking about.

[@Kerrsartisticgifts]

I meant that fifty minutes of every hour he talks is a repeat which is the same in every talk.....it was brow raising the first time but maybe the cure for this would be a little note saying where in the video to begin if you're already familiar with his biography and explanations about exponential vs lineal growth.

[@kayamemet]

yeah I agree, even the answer to the questions are all exact same phrases of previous lectures. This time they did not even answer the questions. But I also believe that with age you slowly replace generation of new ideas with your experience and it seems like his age 70 reflects that.

[@RomeoMihalcea]

True because you are "subscribed" to him. I bet he was the same (giving lots of lectures on same subject) before, you just didn't have so much access (and in such a short timeframe) to his projections. Of course it gets boring this way.

[@monkeyrobotsinc.9875]

i like his 65 million years in 5 minutes recaps.

[@vitolongo4511]

DO YOU THINK Ray here fast diets?

[@jayjaychadoy9226]

Unfortunately my son was intentionally (not homoside) hit by a bus (sometbing similar). How to stop that action without having the input as death occured. Optimism (internal) is not enough, we need hope (external)!

[@vitolongo4511]

Wondering about the part where ray trails off into an edit ...............crash...

[@oscarsans3610]

Wtf??? Is he 70? He looks like he's 50. The pills he's taking defintely work.

[@derekGibsoundSG]

that's exactly my thought

[@VerisimilitudeDude]

Oscar Sans Um no. I'm 50 and I look like I'm in my 30's. But then again, I'm not an average person.

[@oscarsans3610]

Verisimilitude Dude hahahaha

[@2DReanimation]

And look at the hair, hands and skin -- a healthy 50 year old at that! ... well, the turkey-neck does distract from that though...

[@douglasholman6300]

I mean, cognitively he definitely seems to be at about 65-70 years old, but his skin and other bodily features could be healthier than average

[@berobujanovi4331]

What is that on his jacket?

[@kinngrimm]

27:10 Having a hierachicly structured AI, i guess makes it better for us to understand it, but it doesn't have to be a better AI because of it. Sure we are hierachicly structured in our social systems and how we built up logic, right? Yet when he talks about the alien ways how Alpha Go made a move unknown to us or how the queen and bishop was sacrificed to win the game, it is about the categories we have and cant apply to a logic we were not able to follow. I think we should start defining what rights an AI could or should have, even more so if it would have or develop conscioussness. So if it comes to that, the AI itself may see us as equalls or at least well meaning and therefore it would approach us in kind.

[@bamajc777]

kinn grimm dude even the Creator's of the AI admit they don't even know how it works or can predict what it will do, let alone 'us' understand it. This is straight out of the Terminator movie's, nothing good will come of this. shoebat.com/2018/01/22/new-ai-robots-are-being-used-to-predict-when-you-die-with-90-accuracy-but-that-is-not-the-scariest-part/

[@kinngrimm]

From that article "If a man can derive all the pleasure he wants from a machine or machines made to his liking, the incentive to reproduce with a woman no longer exists" The rich who could actually afford at some point models of lifelike robots which could trick someone into believing it would be a real woman, those would die out first i guess ^^. The singlemindedness of that statement i quoted from that article is quite astounding. As if people don't feel longing for a close relationship to a partner or childreen. If at anypoint that would be duplicated with machines, maybe we are done for it, but my guess we will off us before that happens some different way as such a meaningless and empty existance would be unbareable. Then this article has a dead baby in it, how fucked up are you that you spread such shit? Do you know if some child or teenager is reading our comments? Get some perspective.

[@bamajc777]

kinn grimm the statement is accurate, your stupid response to that statement is quite astounding. How fucked up are you to be mad at the people shedding light on the killing of babies and not caring who actually kills them? Anyway if that's all you got from that whole article then you're actually too stupid to even converse with and deserve what is coming to you.

[@martinlubpl]

27:49

[@ManyHeavens42]

So we're Smart enough to know What Smart Is. But Afraid To Be DO IT ? Be It . We could be just as Smart Let's go. Last one there is Stupid !

[@rconger24]

Yes, but what does it mean to be human?

[@helpmeinburning]

The singularity is near is the shit

[@themainmanlewis3044]

❤❤❤

[@theriffguy8237]

I cant unfixate on his beltbuckle not being in line with his buttons.

[@earthgirl8917]

Inventing jobs... (facepalm) is so damn obsolete thinking. “We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller

[@MrErick1160]

great

[@creemoon9546]

so you want to be a perpetual slave?

[@creemoon9546]

Quoting a smart person does not make you one.

[@creemoon9546]

i don't think you fully understand what buck is saying.

[@pyrofiliac]

@@creemoon9546 what do you think hes saying? because it sounds like youre the dipshit in this scenario