Ray Kurzweil & Jessica Coen | The Power of Ideas to Transform the World is Accelerating | SXSW 2018

[@sagerafferty]

Ray's hair is growing exponentially.

[@retrocdtv]

Ray: This is the most peaceful time. Meanwhile 2020: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@doodelay]

That incredulous laugh in the audience when the host says elon musk thinks AI is more dangerous than nukes. Gives me shivers

[@ClayMann]

I think Ray is on record as saying we have a 50/50 chance of coming out the other side of AI and the singularity. And he's the optimist. But its not like anyone could regulate this. You put police in every building in the USA and they'll make the AI in China. You try and track for big projects and they'll splinter them so they can't be detected from space (the 100,000's of servers it would take is hard to hide) Whatever we do in the best interests of humanity, someone else will ignore those safe guards to win the arms race for control of AI. He who controls the spice, controls the universe and all that. Worst case scenario. All life on Earth is wiped out and machine life eventually evolves off out into space to colonize the universe with thinking machines. They're kinda built for deep space travel to start with. Almost makes sense in a horrific way.

[@doodelay]

Clay Mann indeed they are sort of built for space, scary

[@thomashead-rapson811]

Yep. People have no idea about their own fragility and that of the species as a whole. Being smart only makes you able to outsmart and out-compete species less smart than you. That same sentence applies to beings smarter than us, i.e. where we are the less smart ones. The idea of "control" in that scenario is laughable.

[@MrJosh6889]

Elon addressed the general public's unwillingness to appropriately respond to the risk of AI. Sam Harris is outspoken in this regard as well. I think Elon said it best though when he said that people are unwilling to believe that a computer can be smarter than they are, despite us having proven that again and again in the narrow sense. It's inevitable that it will arrive in the general sense. It's inevitable that it will outgrow human cognition in a remarkably short amount of time. I just don't know how you could not be worried about the control problem, unless it's something you've failed to give any amount of thought to. My fear is not that general AI will go uncontrolled, but that it will be controlled by a malevolent force. Or perhaps simply having that control will transform whoever controls it first into malevolence. Maybe I've just read too many dystopian novels, but I can't help but expect that it will be used for mass subjugation, taking even more power away from the general public and putting it into the hands of an oligarchical few.

[@thomashead-rapson811]

MrJay6889 Excellent comment. Either scenario is bad. Maybe that is the real danger; the ratio of the possible ways AGI could go badly for humanity compared to those where it could go well seems alarming large to me. To many bad outcomes to calculate, nevermind prepare for.

[@JoshuaSmith99]

Ole Ray "Ive been accused of being an optimist" Kurzweil.

[@GB3770]

ive watched many of his lectures and he trots out the same lines so often - rustling in leaves, gotta be an optimist to be an entrepenur, like a greatest hits on repeat - lol.

[@abdicolestudios8899]

Don’t forget the animal in the cliff. Inventor at 5. Coming to a human near you. The bus and heart joke. Etcetcetcetcetcercetc

[@LeeWoods]

Ray is rocking the LG Watch!

[@bobbieknott4643]

Interesting Watch!

[@retrocdtv]

Yes 😉

[@Amplamente]

Ray is just on another level of awareness than the host.

[@brian554xx]

Seeing Kurzweil coughing is a bit unnerving. He's trying so hard to be immortal!

[@madelefant05]

Did something happen to Ray?

[@da7me22]

What do you mean?

[@madelefant05]

His face and his hair look different and his nose too but maybe I just hadn't seen recent pictures of him.

[@PyroVesten]

He has uploaded his mind to the cloud and is streaming it back down to one of the millions of RayBodies he has created. They still don't look perfect.

[@Well_Meaning]

It's called getting old

[@MikaelMurstam]

lol it's a toupée Griff.

[@olivianegrin3599]

Assuming this is the direction we are going to follow, how will society will train and adapt to this big leap that will change all levels of life as we know them today from food,health to teaching, jobs and being productive,contributer,valued?

[@LifeWithWill]

Has Ray Kurzwei found the fountain of youth? He looks 10 years younger!

[@johnreaume64]

Life With Will That's why he has on two watches, time travel

[@ClayMann]

It sounds like a joke when I say, yes he has its one of his startup companies. But he really does have a big company that researches and sells the latest stuff you can do to extend your life.

[@LifeWithWill]

He will die the day before singularity...that's my prediction

[@SiimLand]

He doesn't seem to be breathing right

[@MarkGast]

I would hope so considering the amount of supplements he takes. Remember, he knows the people on the cutting edge of medical technology and knowledge.

[@HikikomoriDev]

27:16 apparently that book never released either...

[@splabbity]

Just in time for an upgrade.

[@Robusti09]

Consciousness means being aware of itself, so don't see much of a problem determine that, but more so when detecting it. Also, as laws of nature are what they are, doesn't mean that the universe is a computer, but "just' an infinite space with certain laws that materia follows etc. interact i.e. what kind of properties materia has. These properties might be binded to certain time & space. So, there is a possibility for infinite number of laws of nature. One way to rationalise this, is to imagine infinite materia, thus infinite layers of hierarchies(which of those we can detect few today, sub-nucleus, atom, molecule up to visible expanding universe and a set of different attractions/laws that materia follows in different hierarchies. This might apply to infinity as well). This interaction has of course never started i.e. must have certain balance(explosions being one relevant feature of that balance), but been happening for ever & will continue to happen(the universe does not dye, even we as a species very well might do so). We exist in an infinite space where unknown amount of materia has certain properties. There can not be an original creator for universe hence can't rationally argue universe to be a computer, but only to that extent, that it has certain properties and also similarities with the concept "computer". Because there is no beginning and we do exist at least at some 'level’((plus we have created AI i.e. there is already analogy to conscious creature creating other coscious(almost) creature )), there have had(minimum assuming limited amount of materia, if infinite amount, then infinite amount of intelligent 'life' existing simultaneously) existed infinite amount of conscious creatures created both by conscious creature and just formed without(ouh, maybe not possible, because if there is a change that such a creature can exist with can be aware of everything and have an absolute control over that specific matter). We have to become more serious about not to go extinct for ex. we know so few things/our understanding is so limited.

[@nonutemperor]

I'm here after crowder dropped the mic 🎤 on her, stayed for Ray's wisdom

[@SpinBoy]

Yet another middling interview of a brilliant person. The questions belie that she did only surface homework and brought nothing interesting. What a missed opportunity. Thank god Kurzweil delivers in spite of it.

[@KrishnaHarish]

👌🏼🙏🏼

[@retrocdtv]

Ray my boy is looking like a Stud.😎

[@taureanphares1234]

I love how nicely he just describes the matrix

[@ozmuzo739]

27:00 - Best Slamdunk by the host. Boom!!!

[@SiimLand]

He doesn't seem to be breathing right

[@carloscervantes836]

Why does he have two watches on?

[@NeoKailthas]

one for the future and one for this time.

[@alexxxoz]

To remind him to feed his hair.

[@pedroneves5864]

Because he takes 90 pills a day (no joke). It helps him with it

[@Eric_Cartman001]

You discovered his secret... He is time traveler...

[@raviravi5342]

lol

[@clarababo4040]

Acredito que tudo esteja a melhorar MENOS os corações das pessoas , e os midia têm sido os culpados através dos filmes , das notícias , da TV , e principalmente com os JOGOS ! Todos os jogos incluem fogo , armas e violência ! Os inventores podem desculpar-se dizendo que o fogo e as armas são para os personagens se defenderem .... mas esquecem-se que as mesmas armas que servem para defesa , servem também para ATAQUE ! E assim , vivemos num mundo onde as crianças crescem com um coração de pedra e que são capazes de usar uma arma como se fosse " O Pão Nosso De Cada Dia " ..... pois é tão BANAL !

[@richardnunziata3221]

I get tired of listening to this guy , BTW I think he means 2000 years ago not two centuries ago there was only one democracy, Athens.

[@rantersheaven8855]

What were the democracies 2 centuries ago? Just USA, I think? France, which was first in modern era, lost its democracy shortly thereafter, and didn't gain it back until mid 19th century.

[@daniel....]

True. We've had democracies in the past, but since the end of the middle ages (thanks, Christianity), the US was the first democracy of modern world.

[@jimbartz1356]

Let AI read everything ever written or spoken and give it reign over the world. No person or Nation could ever be as fair. What is wrong about that?

[@Sillysillystupidio]

Ray sporting the Andy Warhol look these days..

[@clarababo4040]

..... / ..... não seria melhor que esses jogos fossem didácticos e que obrigassem as crianças a raciocinar aplicando o melhor da inteligência ? ? ..... E não seria melhor que todos os filmes em vez de mostrarem TANTAS ESPADAS .... PISTOLAS ..... e FOGO , mostrassem , através das ações , carinho pelos bons , e castigo para os maus ! Sabemos que na vida real isso acontece pouco , mas precisávamos que acontecesse mais , e temos que fomentar e mostrar BONS EXEMPLOS ! Já bastam os desequilibrados que na vida real praticam o mal ! Precisamos de mais pessoas boas , com coração de pomba e que se emocionem e chorem de alegria quando vêm JUSTIÇA através de castigos que não sejam violentos nem MACABROS !

[@cineblock224]

He looks exponentially older

[@consandpiracytheorums1563]

I want to know exactly what it is that's been done to me?

[@HikikomoriDev]

I don't really buy the bias thing... That's like essentially taking out the usefulness of what ever it is trying to be. In fact, I don't know why he's really mentioning that it needs to be shifted to behave this and that... We are back into square one then.

[@kunal6155]

All his talks are same, feels like a robot repeating the same stuff over and over again

[@swapanjain892]

Kunal Verma because the question s asked are same...!!!

[@MarkGast]

I feel the same way about Michio Kaku. These kind of guys make a lot of speeches. Don't expect a fresh one every time.

[@Kynareth6]

He repeats himself over the years, being rather boring. That's why I watch this in 1.5x speed. His predictions don't come true by the way. I write it as an individual who has read his books.

[@jasonjasonjasonjasonjason]

vertical farms as seen in minecraft

[@norabellerose8560]

Ray Kurzweil is my Jesus.

[@JBDazen]

Goodness, what has happened to him? Is he ill?

[@BiscottiGelato]

The Danielle sounds a lot like Elon Musk. How much good can 1 intelligent courageous person bring to the world. You don’t need a novel for that.

[@이슈이터]

2045. Ray. I believe. You. 2045

[@carlsonaar]

I consider myself an agnostic, but I have been increasingly interested in the idea that we may be living in a video game or a simulation. A lot of really smart people like Elon Musk, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, etc. seem to think it's a serious possibility.

[@theinterestedpetastrophe443]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpzXc5J6er1obM0

[@singularitybound]

This was a great example of why SJ nonsense is dangerous, extremely shortsighted and ignorant to any lesson learned. Of coarse you train out Bias as best you can around input/output.. Still though there is danger in this sense too, like who gets to decide to tell it what is and isn't (like she actually wants too.) She meant "THEIR" definition of Bias lol. Its like a red flag that's impossible to miss, yet they miss it LOL. Injecting that ideology would be the very reason they would destroy us w/o question LOL. And then the diversity LOL (I bet this was killing Ray inside - they do the same BS with Musk now; trying to rope them into their nonsense.) yeah last thing we want is idiots who were picked by skin color (the irony in that alone) making errors because their quality/ability is lower - standard - generic- and not deserving of such sensitive endeavor, that couple us all out.. Oh but the color of skin being equal in the room will surly save humanity from this! lol. Its like they will carebear stare at the moment of a bad outcome, and they think it will actually work. While we become another galactic race checked off the map.

[@wde0912]

Damn she asks questions that he just answered

[@jamesfox8930]

She's an agent.

[@gjlgjl]

His right hand tremor might my vitamin B overdose as a possible cause of neuropathy, or thyroid problems, or some parkinsonian problem

[@RaviGovender]

Ray Kurzweil obvs sharing a pint of 25 year old pinot noir with Peter Thiel at the afterparty

[@ChrisMonelt]

I love him, but don't trust his optimism on AI becase he works at Google, the clear leader in AI and most likely to reach world changing AI before anyone else. Imagine a computer that underatands the world just as well as an average human. Then imagine that a week after that, it will accomplish 20,000 years of human level intellectual labor. Even if we don't get general AI, a narrow stock trading AI could make the AI owner richer and more powerful than any nation

[@MeetLeAnne]

Our own living Einstein.

[@mrpicky1868]

"google can actually understand the meaning of the natural language BTW" oops

[@jameshumphrey9939]

perhaps time to rid of representative democracy to direct democracy...

[@MarkGast]

Unless you are VERY careful that would be the same as mob rule. I would rather live in a place where the passions of the mob is muted by law and/or a social contract (examples: U.S. Constitution, Magna Carta). Of course, this assumes that your representatives actually have your best interests at heart. No system is perfect.

[@mrpicky1868]

comparing access to cell phone and access to immortality is playing dumb at its lowest, Ray ))

[@michaelmcfarland1896]

In a world that is owned and operated by psychopaths, only a psychopath would want to live forever, Ray.

[@nklebs]

worst toupee ever ray!

[@plasticornflake9859]

Looks like his hands have tremors.

[@fuzzyone99]

What a ridiculous toupee.

[@robertg786]

This is bull shit. This is NOT the Ray Kurzweil we are familiar with. This guy doesn't even LOOK OR SOUND like Ray.

[@badwolf8112]

unconscious bias is total BS

[@jameshumphrey9939]

hmm is the world less polluted is the earth more rich in nutrients for agricultural is the ocean cleaner and not dying are the animal species growing is the global temperature stable and not destructively rising........is the world less toxic with chemicals is the world more healthy instead of just having more longevity have mental disorders decreased - if kurzweil is is optimistic the future correcting these things ok then there may]be other 'metrics' or perspectives to view it. the highly advanced american indian civilizations had sustainable life for thousands of years clean air clean water abundant wildlife........respecting nature and its importance to continuing its people into the future....now it is forever diminished a a few centuries to the things that kurzweil is optimistic about in correcting it. will spreading out our technology over the unused previously inhospitable land really be a solution? what of the loss of great expanse of primal wilderness areas? will everything be recycled and sustainable are trashed and polluted to more technology and longer lives.......

[@LifeWithWill]

"I'm an entrepreneur" but he works at Google?

[@Diego-ix8ge]

He works now in google, but just since a few years ago. He's been an entrepeneur all his life.

[@LifeWithWill]

Still...He has money and talent. Those 2 things don't equal working for someone else/

[@Diego-ix8ge]

Life With Will, I understand what you mean, but he joined Google because he is very interested in natural language processing and that kind of stuff and he alone cannot obtain the necessary resources (I think nor him neither his companies). We are talking about HUGE cloud computing power for neural networks to train, and just Google can give that. Google or any other big tech company.

[@ClayMann]

I heard it went like this. The founders of Google said they had to get Ray in. Someone get Ray! We need Ray! And Ray came and saw they had the biggest map of language and its meaning ever created and said, where do i sign? I think it was akin to him going to MIT because it was the only place they had a computer. Google is the only place on Earth they had the map he needed to really take A.I further than he could have ever done with his own money.

[@JA-vz1nl]

Unless Google offered him something he couldn't refuse.. He's working in Google's Calico Project, look it up. It's right up his alley.

[@tjkbrown]

Yea I'd trust Charles Manson as my Psychiatrist, before I'd trust this guy with anything... Especially Artificial Intelligence.

[@HikikomoriDev]

RIP.

[@MikaelMurstam]

yeah that's why he is working at Google in AI.

[@mrpicky1868]

nazi much?)

[@pauladams1814]

Ray is amazing with technology but struggles with the human equation.

[@saerain]

Meaning what?

[@consandpiracytheorums1563]

They tried to murder me a few times

[@EmmanAdventures]

No offense but this man isn't nearly as bright as Elon Musk. He can't even admit that AI can take over the military with no effort.

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

While I love Elon Musk I have to say that this man is as bright as Elon.

[@ClayMann]

He agrees with Elon. He just doesn't like to dwell on the negative. Read his books and he talks openly about the dangers. I forget the exact lines but I remember in one of his books he worked out we had roughly a 50/50 chance of survival past the singularity. But he doesn't get up on stage and make noise about that. He does what scientists and engineers do. He wrote about it, published the data and tried to get more minds involved in trying to keep us safe. Elon has done the same kinds of things. Invested in AI himself to try and steer it in the right direction. Elon hasn't banned AI from his life and career because of how dangerous it is. I see them both holding the same view, they just come out at differently as we'd expect wildly diverse human beings to do.

[@ozmuzo739]

Are you serious? Or are you one of those mindless fanboys who basically just watch KZbin videos. While Elon is a brilliant man, Ray invented things like Scanners and Synthesizers when there where no concepts of these. The only real invention that Elon had was PayPal ... Elon is an entrepreneur with a lot of guts and money to push things but this guy literally creates ideas and things from his brain.

[@christinajohnstonperez9361]

@@ozmuzo739 absolutely

[@retrocdtv]

He's an Elon Musk who's old.