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Who is Ray Kurzweil? If you do not know this name, then in two in a nutshell, this is the inventor and director of engineering Google, but he became famous as a futurologist, that is forecaster of the future. Ray predicted to an accuracy of 90 percent in its time is what we have technically now: ubiquitous development of the Internet, the victory of computers in accurate games, for example, in chess, robotics in many sectors of the people households and much more.
But the most interesting, this futurologist foresaw even the collapse Soviet Union, analyzing, it would seem, only technical aspects development of human society. For this reason, many believe that Kurzweil’s forecasts can be trusted much more than astrologers, psychics and other homegrown oracles of our time.
Ray Kurzweil speaks at a recent SXSW conference with new predictions for the future. In his opinion, by 2029 artificial intelligence equals human and calm pass the Turing test, and by 2045 the world will reach a singularity, that is, AI will become much smarter than humans at this time.
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At this time, says the American futurologist, the human brain can be fully mechanized, and the virtual reality will change so much that physical jobs don’t will have nothing to do with today’s because switching reached an unprecedented level. As a result of all this, it will disappear the need to live in megacities, and so the process will begin deurbanization. Moreover, at this time, human consciousness can be copied to electronic media, so there will be no need to maintain the life of the flesh. IN virtual reality, a person can imagine himself than anything, even a bird, even an ant. Naturally, and die such the brain will no longer be (in the usual biological sense), since it devoid of the mortal shell …
Kurzweil’s future is surprising and scary at the same time. To many it It seems too fantastic to be realized. But Ray predicted, for example, the ubiquitous Wi-Fi, and his forecast gradually comes to life, although then nobody believed. But here Elon Musk intends in the coming years to to establish the Internet from space throughout the Earth – and this is already no one doesn’t seem fiction. So wait and see, because until 2029 only ten years left …
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