Ray Kurzweil on the power Exponential Growth & The Singularity | MOONSHOTS

[@pandoraeeris7860]

RK is really exponentially accelerating his fashion sense!

[@jvoidhuey3088]

He is slowly turning into a clown. Love his work and mind... But he is looking more like a clown these days.

[@frank254100]

​@@jvoidhuey3088freedom of dress my friend..

[@visionariorg]

He is out schemes…

[@VANDERWALTTINA]

He is a nutcase, always has been

[@dischargedarrowgetback4322]

The question is whether this fashion is some kind of joke or whether he really thinks it looks good on him and is cool.

[@George-Aguilar]

Love hearing Rays wisdom and hope for the future!

[@Ari_diwan]

I really hope that abundance becomes a reality, things are bad here in my country at the moment

[@thetroytroycan]

Where is that?

[@Joshua-eo5hr]

​@@thetroytroycanto be fair no country is a good place to live we still have to work we can die from many things soon we'll have no work no aging and we could each get a Pagani.

[@visionariorg]

Ray is simply fantastic and his guess so deep

[@mangoauto8450]

I read the singularity is near when it first came out , and feel we are 3-5 years away from things going crazy. For me I’ll know it’s here when scarcity is solved and all diseases are cured. Praying for Michael J Fox and everyone else afflicted with currently incurable disease

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

Extremely interesting times indeed. I read the Singularity is Near back in the day too, and was thoroughly persuaded by his arguments. Admittedly though, after so many years of the AI Winter I eventually started having my doubts, so it was satisfying and relieving when things started going crazy with the relatively recent onset of the AI Spring started by OpenAI’s release of ChatGTP, and AI now being put in every new device in tech shows, amazing new AIs like Sora, and all the knowledge jobs that are now being done better by LLMs, etc. The rate of progress over the last year alone is nuts.

[@claudioagmfilho]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻, We love you RK!

[@Dogbertforpresident]

It's a really good story about how he discovered a phenomenon that he calls "Law of Accelerating Returns" which is the exponential growth due to taking today's tech to build tomorrows and so on.

[@KanesTrades]

Kurzweil's Law!

[@thetroytroycan]

Ive been waiting for this since his book came out. Then i can srink all day and night and party hard like in my 20s

[@inteligenciamilgrau]

Matt Wolf in this January said "I think this 2024 we will not see a full AI movie" and yesterday, about a month after he said "oh... I was wrong"

[@dhickey5919]

Like good ideas!

[@azjaguardesign]

#Vacuum-tubes! 😮 3:28

[@dischargedarrowgetback4322]

In a world of exponential growth, there will be overestimation of the near future, and underestimation of the relatively distant future of 10 years or more. There will be no major changes in the next few years, but major changes will occur in the next 10 years.

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

Changes will happen slower than the most optimistic guesses, but more quickly than the average person suspects

[@therebeccamarie]

The dangling carrot needs to be sold as enticing. Desiring to be symbiotic with AI and allow it to control thoughts, feelings and behavior may be the sign of already being cybernetic. An element of being human is free will and choice, it's fascinating watching those who have lost theirs.

[@rleclaire87]

Humans don't actually have free will though

[@therebeccamarie]

I agree for the most part. Big subject for sure.@@rleclaire87

[@michaelmartinez5365]

Free will is an illusion.

[@therebeccamarie]

Agree for the most part. @@michaelmartinez5365

[@HarperSkylark]

well said.

[@azjaguardesign]

50 billion calculations per second per dollar! Wow! Can #Ray extrapolate further out into the future if the same rate of growth expands exponentially, say … For the NEXT (80) years? Where on the graph will we be then? 😊

[@worldpeace9566]

We will exponential grow in AI every 3 months.

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

It should be called Moore's Law, because he's the guy who first noticed the pattern.

[@ReadyPlayerPiano]

Missing the point. It's not a dismissal of Moore, it's just a different metric as the underlying cause is decoupled from the phenomenon noted by Moore. Moore's law was specifically in regard to transistors.

[@dr.emmettbrown7183]

It is not a law but an AGENDA planned many decades ago. Do not be fooled.

[@redcarddino]

Really ? People trolling ray ... looser and haters are the same thing

[@secretd5]

Actually losers and haters are closer than loosers and haters that is assuming loosers are people who deflate tension or release (things or concepts) from restraint.

[@redcarddino]

@@secretd5 what nice mistake ... loosers are in constan toxic restrain and haters is the next evolution of all of that rottem toxicity

[@yoganature3598]

👀

[@AbsurdBear]

Give me one more exhortation to not call it Moore's Law, and I'm going to call it Moore's Law forever (and a day).

[@dr.emmettbrown7183]

Why is he dressed like a clown? Well, to laugh at you. Telling you something that he knows is going to happen because they have planned it decades ago.

[@exmodule6323]

Does Ray ever say anything new?

[@ruah057]

Apparently we'll be dressing like clowns in the future 😂

[@Noname-yu8qw]

and people becoming more stupid...

[@sitedev]

I feel like I just watched a really bad kids tv show. On a serious note: his comment about most people not liking their jobs and AI will free them from work … nice … what are they supposed to eat? The answer cannot be UBI - no self respecting human wants to live on welfare regardless of how it’s marketed.

[@rleclaire87]

What you're forgetting is that the world is going to change and people just won't have economic value. So it doesn't really matter what we want, we'll be thrown into existential crisis and having to rethink the purpose of life. And we will.

[@rleclaire87]

And you're right that the ultimate solution is not UBI. It's abundance.

[@StratumPress]

You can farm if you want.

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

“The goal of the future Is full unemployment, so we can play” - Arthur C Clarke

[@dr.emmettbrown7183]

There is a hidden agenda. What is going to happen is not going to be by chance. Everything is planned decades in advance. Don't be fooled. The plan includes getting rid of a large part of the world's population, but they are not going to tell you that, but rather they are going to tell you children's stories hoping that you will believe them.

[@trojanthedog]

Oh Ray, don't use the French in any commentary concerning normative attitudes towards work! 😂

[@AgrippaTheMighty]

Because...?

[@jimdandy8996]

If he had it his way, it would be called "Kurzweil's Law." AI has been around 60 years? lol

[@Antitheist]

He calls it the law of accelerating returns.

[@rationalmuscle]

Neural nets have been -first papers and research in the 1940s - and if you had half an ounce of knowledge of the field, you'd know that.

[@jimdandy8996]

@@rationalmuscle I have enough knowledge to know that's not actual AI. Perhaps you could benefit from a few grams of knowledge.

[@juanestonia7213]

Millions of dollars, yet can't afford a stylist.

[@whatthefunction9140]

Or he paid for the most exclusive stylist

[@blakemurch9930]

L take mans killin it

[@juanestonia7213]

@@whatthefunction9140 or a drunk toddler.

[@SnerMerNer]

Style is dressing up for external validation. This man has no need to prove himself to anyone.

[@StratumPress]

Poor people worry about style so they can look like they're winning while they're losing. Winners don't care how they look.

[@MikeHowles]

This dude is too full of himself.

[@rleclaire87]

I guess the random Internet person knows

[@StratumPress]

Look in a mirror.

[@rationalmuscle]

Yeah...he's only been correct more than Nostradamus on steroids, but sure...he should tame it down a bit.

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

There’s zero evidence that he’s “full of himself”. Sure of his ideas, yeah, I see that, but that’s not synonymous with what you’re implying. It seems to me like you’re resorting to ad hominem attacks to cope with your own discomfort at the current and growing torrent of evidence that major, psychologically-disruptive changes are happening faster than anyone - other than Kurzweil - expected. We’re already seeing things with AI’s like Chat GPT that people like you would have assumed what either decades away or would never happen at all. i.e. Copium. You’re welcome to tender another explanation though? Perhaps you’re living under a rock or something? Either way a lone insult is not a counter argument.

[@dr.emmettbrown7183]

Exactly. You have identified it correctly. That guy is not trustworthy.