Ray Kurzweil - The Future & The Technological Singularity (3 Hours)

Ray Kurzweil is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Recorded in 2006
Aside from futurism, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.
Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.

[@syrupgoblin4920]

Legendary. A human to remembered forever by future AGIs. He deserves to be digitally immortalized

[@keithjames3024]

38:05 This "material scientist" must feel like an idiot now. Ray's predictions are spot on so far.

[@GoldwireIT]

Came here just for this segment...thanks.

[@KevinForfar]

Again, it proves how many people can't grasp thinking in an exponential fashion. The pace at which technologies are advancing is not linear (which is what many think) but is rather exponential. This is hard for most people to fathom.

[@Guizambaldi]

To be fair, Ray does look like a crackpot at first sight. Especially back then.

[@Amplamente]

He must have loved his latest appearance on Rogan

[@MarkPineLife]

I love learning about the future.

[@max-dy3vs]

Too.

[@xsuploader]

@@AnandRamachandran1 its still 25 years before the singularity.

[@KevinForfar]

The exciting thing is that the singularity will happen in many of our lifetimes, even without age-reversing technology. I'll be 54 years old in 2045 when the singularity happens; young enough to reap the benefits of all this wonderful technology that will come out. The future looks promising indeed.

[@tylerisse5120]

If only you knew what occurred this week

[@livelongenoughtoliveforeve1114]

Ray brings hope for the future! Transhumanism all the way - elimination of poverty and death from aging and amplification of intelligence and wellbeing through optimising bio feed mechanisms in alignment with both nature and technology

[@leandrawomack9029]

It will only benefit the elite ,not the average person! 'Own nothing and be happy'" World Economic Forum.

[@strauss7151]

Kurzweil is the techno-prophet of our age.

[@pratcus]

"Thus spoke Zarathustra"..He speaks so clear about future before people who always feather what they understand for reasons they only know.

[@deeksharatnabadoreea7721]

I love this man.

[@susanwoodward7485]

You might rethink that in a few years.

[@deeksharatnabadoreea7721]

@@susanwoodward7485 But why ? What did he do? Please reply?

[@xsuploader]

@@deeksharatnabadoreea7721 Im assuming hes referring to his failed predictions

[@Xisk77]

Ray Kurzweil is one of the most misunderstood, underapreciated and admirable people of our time. How people can hate and fear this man is beyond me. People need to stop being so paranoid. To me, people who hate on Kurzweil today, look like the neanderthals of yesterday arguing with a modern day man that life is better in the cave rather than building cities and civilisation. Just now we're the neanderthals and I'm OK with that. I'd rather be one of the neanderthals that helped it's kind become the modern man rather than then ones that chose to stay in caves. Even if I won't see all of the wonders this tech can achieve, even seeing one or two is enough for me. Knowing that that more is coming and that humanity will transcend itself eventually is enough for me. Its funny that religious folk always say that this is evil Pride. SURELY, its more prideful and selfish to hate a technology and an idea simply because you won't be receiving all of its benefits? The posthuman goal is a noble one.

[@irszgatti]

My friend, there will always be those who chose to stay behind. These people are paranoid because they know that the transhumanists see them as violent and ignorant liabilities. They are already smart enough to know they are subject to subtle genocide, if not outright and blatant. You cannot blame people for hating what this man represents. That's true ignorance. Transhumanists have no intention of sharing any of the planet or its resources. They have no intention of allowing any industrious and natural human beings to continue as they have been. You know why.

[@hiatuz3512]

28:25 What a great set of questions.

[@Leshpngo]

Ray has a cat figurine collection?

[@DekeVon]

This is from 2006. Why are you publishing it now and not putting it in the title. Amateurs.

[@cassiusspacetrain2852]

Deano clickbait

[@streetwalkincheeta1999]

Haha

[@rogertsunlee4005]

Bruno Bruno bonjour

[@rogertsunlee4005]

Bonjour Ray

[@rogertsunlee4005]

Bonnie the Ray speech great ,

[@antoniobortoni]

This guy just predicts the future, I mean I just a trend that never going to end, we are living the trend.

[@Radioposting]

Proof that we are indeed in the singularity right now... When 5 years ago is ancient tech. Don't blink.

[@dvamateur]

I like the Kurzweil K2000 instrument introduced back in 1991. It strikes a perfect balance between the features and aesthetics. The models that came before were great, too, but a bit out there. The models that come after are unnecessary. The K2000 can be upgraded practically indefinitely through samples, and explored virtually indefinitely within its fixed 31 algorithms of synthesis. Do I want the nano technology to stop my atherosclerosis and feel better? Sure. Do I want to lose my independence to having robots belonging to someone else keep me alive? No, unless they on par with my political views. To put it blatantly, if the new technologies are going to observe all 10 commandments, I will be more optimistic than if the don't. :)

[@jimbrown2350]

They will follow the commandments of your slave master. What you spend what you spend it on and where you go. Who you meet and why. When you leave your house and why.

[@hassanmostafa9856]

Ray kurzweil and Michio Kaku explained a lot of things happened\s and will happen started from 2000 to 2050 . I knew them by chance ,I wonder if there is more people like them !

[@coreybarcombe5468]

The autistic call-in at 39 minutes is clearly Michael Shermer. A sad, little man who is incapable of creative thought, so must exist solely as a debunker of other people's creativity.

[@coreybarcombe5468]

Don't get me wrong, there is certainly a place for skepticism, but when it's taken to an extreme level it stifles all but the most orthodox thought. IMO, that would make science grind to a halt much quicker than all the crackpot theories put together.

[@OHMYGAWD21]

The funny thing is that everything Ray said would happen in the 2010s happened.We got 3D NAND, we got the speech recognition, we are close to 5nm in chip manufacturing, reprogramming with CRISPR and so on.

[@ryanfranks9441]

Good ear, that sounds just like him.

[@horse-yu1tl]

Whats wrong with being autistic?

[@pfschuyler]

Certainly the caller at 39 minutes was a complete ass. Makes me think twice about the presumed qualifications of Oak Ridge scientists. To disagree with Kurzweil is fine, but to interject such a combative and self-righteous perspective like that, in such a smug and disrespectiful way was tough to watch. Plus, he seemed oddly obsessed with idiosyncratic tidbits of Kurzweil's past books as opposed to making any sort of comprehensible point about the broader issues discussed.

[@Instant_Nerf]

He got speech recognition %100

[@hassanmostafa9856]

I love his smile 🥰

[@namelastname4077]

This was taped in the previous millennia?

[@metalim]

It was broadcasted on TV, and recorded with last millennia VHS.

[@andybaldman]

2006. Close.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

2x speed

[@hamedalavi7681]

It was awesome ...

[@janiemiller825]

Nanobots sounds amazing 👏

[@SnipingNoobs-]

It's on nowadays jabs

[@randomgamingstuff1]

Intel is already working on 5nm chips and they said they're already come along way. thats 1nm off. pretty accurate for a prediction made about technology 15 years ago...

[@aneki3394]

He is able to predict with at least 80% right

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

Great man! I see so much of myself in him..

[@MikaelMurstam]

He spoke much faster back then

[@rogertsunlee4005]

Breathing Bonnie Ray

[@rogertsunlee4005]

Kurzweil guesswork bonjour

[@rogertsunlee4005]

They said that AOLink Aircraft artifact AI ,Booktv , C-SPAN2

[@rogertsunlee4005]

Bonjour

[@rogertsunlee4005]

Bonnie

[@wenmoonson]

Technology has advanced so much since this aired that this show has been replaced by the Kardashians. Singularity is right around the corner!

[@videovitae]

Evolution Revolution.

[@DanHorus899]

Ray is a walking pipedream, To even come close to his wild predictions we must tackle the present.

[@irszgatti]

His vision doesn't involve billions.

[@AnthonyWilsonOlympian]

Ok, so it was taped in 2006, how are his predictions trending in 2018?

[@SFGuerrilla]

The Singularity Is Near

[@ciceroaraujo5183]

Such rude 1st caller

[@darshanadhabalia4836]

asshole he was!

[@jerrybender6633]

sounds less crazy thru the years thats for sure-- Not bad Ray

[@xalspaero]

can't wait for the singularity! cyborg or gtfo

[@korpen3770]

So young

[@user-kl9mc6cq4d]

Gpt5 soon

[@andrewbatstone7285]

"The key features of technology are getting smaller...at that rate, we will get to full-scale molecular nanotechnology in about 20 years." 2026 is only seven years away, and we are still nowhere close to molecular nanotechnology. The caller at 38:04 was right about him.

[@ataraxia7439]

@jigga jaw I guess it would be nice if he was a lot more specific about what extent the technology would exist. He predicted us to have self-driving cars by now for example. We technically do but not in the way that most people picture when they read that prediction. It's just alot more convincing when you make predictions very specific and without a lot of room for error.

[@Violet._.PhoeniX]

@jigga jaw so well said...respectfully:)

[@blazemkds]

@jigga jaw I think self driving will be mandatory eventually. You can't have a human in the way if you really want high efficiency driving. They will claim that humans can't drive anymore, because the AI is at least two times safer than us.

[@fourhourlife8594]

Give it another 10 years :)

[@fourhourlife8594]

Also, his idea about nanobots can be completely replaced with neuralink, which is DEF on path to become a reality

[@MrAndrew535]

Ray is indeed an inventor and no doubt a very good one. He is, however, not a linguist, nor is he a sociolinguist, which is critical in avoiding some of the existential threats associated with a global "AI" system with absolute agency. Without a full comprehension of this highly specific problem then clearly no solutions will be developed and put in place as a contingency for when "AI" goes rogue.

[@danames5780]

Andew Tarjanyi I have no ideA what those are also But To be more blunt I believe We Humans will become the AI ,for the sake of our own conscious Survival.

[@jasonleedean]

Its clear that so called 'friendly AI' is an important idea, especially given the potential of global implications of 'genanobotics' as a convergence of exponential technologies. However I personally believe that Ray's incessant expressions of optimism are absolutely necessary. I think he may be more adept at sociolinguistics than you think. What we say and hear absolutely shape how we think and I believe heunderstands that deeply. As a business change agent and coach I've experienced that in order for meaningful change to happen, we must overcome the natural 'lizard brain' reactions (anchors) which will always be present in anything we do. Meaning, it is our natural tendency to protect ourselves (which is of course very important in this context) and that is going to naturally slow/curtail the development of 'convergence' type of AI building (especially in the self-replication space). I do agree that the development of 'supporting technologies' in AI do need to be aware of their role in 'convergence' manifestations, however from a language perspective, I believe the positive and passionate future that folks like Ray extol is going to actually be necessary for us to see real benefits emerge.

[@dannygjk]

I fail to follow your logic in coming to your conclusion.

[@rowanadams4757]

Dr Mike israetel

[@uBenji1234]

There will be a part of the population that can't reskill to Webdesign and so forth... they will be the losers in the modern tech society.

[@susanwoodward7485]

Webdesign, coding, etc. will be some of the earliest jobs to disappear/be taken over by AI.

[@Westermarkable]

Would like to know how the second caller deals with reality in 2021 😂😂😂. That not so smart person whom thought he was clever as hell didnt age well !

[@SeanMauer]

Why didn't Kurzweil predict that in 2020 our human interactions would be greatly damaged by mandatory mask wearing? Or is this progress?

[@NiekKuijpers]

Its for a good reason.

[@susanwoodward7485]

Might I suggest the CRISPR technology in both SARS CoV 2 and the mRNA "vaccines", and all the CRISPR tech implemented in the zoo of covid-19 therapeutics that have been rolled out in the last year+ of the p(l)andemic.

[@stevencorrea7982]

@@susanwoodward7485 Where does microscopic magnetic robots fit into this thing?

[@susanwoodward7485]

@@stevencorrea7982 See here for one: phys.org/news/2019-04-tiny-robots-powered-magnetic-fields.html; then explore for yourself. Mainstream science still denies the electric basis of life (polarity), yet chooses to use magnetism????

[@stevencorrea7982]

@@susanwoodward7485 You will be one with the Borg resistance is futile.

[@yanki161]

This is how the new slavery begins.

[@elsunmusic3130]

It is long ago done.

[@majestic1120]

licks his lips while thinking about eating our souls. This guy is insane sick!

[@randomgamingstuff1]

eating your soul? is it because of the implications his data driven predictions about the future say about the prospects us staying the centre of the universe in our own minds?

[@DanyCervantes]

Not everyone who doesn’t remind you of yourself is evil. You’re being the very definition of close minded.

[@richiel5384]

Clueless

[@walkerhospitality9692]

So arrogant

[@majestic1120]

reminds me of the verse in the bible they will look for death but death will not find them. I feel sorry for those who buy into this it is evil...wow

[@Ad0lphous]

How is it evil? I'd like to know what evil things will be created with this? Please explain. I'm genuinely interested and concerned.

[@DanyCervantes]

Strong belief on a story of the world that has very flimsy evidence to back it, doesn’t show the best judgment.