Raymond Kurzweil
Inventions life and career
Early
Ray Kurzweil grew up in New York, Queens. He was born to secular parents Jews who fled Austria just before the start of the Second World War and was exposed by the Unitarian Universalism to the diversity of religious beliefs during his upbringing. His father was a musician and composer and his mother was a visual artist. His uncle, an engineer at Bell Labs, he taught young Ray the basics of computing. In his youth was an avid reader of science fiction literature. In 1963 at the age of fifteen he wrote his first computer program. Designed to handle the data, the program has been used by researchers at IBM. Later in high school, created a pattern recognition software sophisticated analysis of the works of composers classic then synthesized its own songs of similar styles. The capabilities of this invention was so impressive that in 1965 he was invited to appear on the program CBS television, I've Got a Secret, where he performed a piano piece that was composed by a computer, but also constructed. Later that same year he won the first prize in the International Science Fair of the invention, and also was recognized by Westinghouse Talent Search and was personally congratulated by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a White House ceremony.
Half-Life
In 1968, during his second year at MIT, Kurzweil started a company that uses a computer program for match students with high schools. The program, called the Select College Consulting Program, was designed by him and in front of thousands of different criteria in each of the colleges of the questionnaire responses submitted by each student applicant. When I was 20, sold the company to Harcourt, Brace and World for $ 100,000 (about U.S. $ 500 000 in 2006 dollars) plus royalties. He received a degree in computer science and literature in 1970 by MIT.
In 1974, Kurzweil founded Kurzweil Computer Products Company, Inc. led the development of recognition program first omni-font optical character computer system capable of recognizing text written in a normal font. Before that time, scanners were only able to read a text written in some sources. It was decided that the best application of this technology is to create a reading machine that allows the blind to understand a text written by a computer having to read aloud. However, this device is the invention of two technologieshe allows CCD flatbed scanner and text to speech synthesizer. Under his leadership, the development of these technologies has been completed, and January 13, 1976, the final product was unveiled at a press conference headed by him and leaders of the National Federation of the Blind. Kurzweil Reading Machine calls, the device has a complete table. It has gained wide recognition: the opening day of the machine, Walter Cronkite used the machine to give SoundOff signature, "And how, January 13, 1976." Listening to The Today Show, the musician Stevie Wonder heard a demonstration of the unit and bought the first version of the Kurzweil reading machine, beginning a long friendship between himself and Kurzweil.
According to former employees of Kurzweil Computer Products, designer Kurzweil Reading Machine was the engineer Richard Brown, an employee of KCP at the time.
Kurzweil working next big project started in 1978, Kurzweil Computer Products began selling a commercial version of software for optical character recognition. LexisNexis is one of the first customers, and buy the program to download and emerging legal document in their new databases online.
Two years later, Kurzweil sold his company to Xerox, which has an interest to continue to sell paper to computer text conversion. Kurzweil Computer Products became a subsidiary of Xerox formerly known as ScanSoft and Nuance Communications, as now, and worked as a consultant for the former until 1995.
Next Kurzweil trading company has been in the technology of electronic music. After a meeting Stevie Wonder in 1982, which deplored the gap in capabilities and qualities of electronic synthesizers and traditional musical instruments, Kurzweil has been inspired to create a new generation of music synthesizers capable of accurately reproducing the sounds of actual instruments. Kurzweil Music Systems was founded the same year and in 1984, the Kurzweil K250 was revealed. The machine was able to imitate a range of instruments, music and the tests were not able to discern the difference between the way of piano Kurzweil K250 of a normal piano. Capabilities of recording and mixing equipment, along with its ability to mimic different instruments allowed for a single user to compose and play an orchestra everything.
Kurzweil Music Systems was sold to Korean musical instrument manufacturer Young Chang in 1990. As with Xerox Kurzweil is remained as a consultant for several years.
Later life
Along with Kurzweil Music Systems, Ray Kurzweil has founded the company Kurzweil Applied Intelligence (KAI) to develop recognition systems commercial speech. The first product, which began in 1987, was the first program of large vocabulary recognition of speech, allowing users to issue rights to their computers through the microphone, the device transcribe speech into written text. Later, the company's technology combined with recognition systems Voice of medical experts to create the Kurzweil VoiceMed (now Clinical Reporter) product line, allowing doctors to write medical reports by speaking instead of writing. KAI exists today as Nuance Communications.
Kurzweil Educational Systems Kurzweil began in 1996 to develop new information technologies to recognize ways to help people with disabilities such as blindness, dyslexia and ADD in school. Products include the Kurzweil 1000 program to text software voice conversion, which allows a computer to read electronic and scanned text aloud to blind users or visually impaired, and Kurzweil 3000 program, which is a multifaceted electronic learning in reading, writing and study skills.
Raymond Kurzweil singularity Stanford Summit 2006
During the 1990 Ray Kurzweil has founded the Medical Association Learning Company. Company products include an interactive computer program for teaching physicians and computer-simulated patients. Around the same time, Kurzweil began KurzweilCyberArt.com site with software to facilitate the process of creation art. The site to offer free downloads synthesizer program called AARON visual art developed by Harold Cohennd of "Kurzweil Cybernetic Poet," which automatically creates poetry. During this period also began KurzweilAI.net, a website dedicated to highlighting new scientific developments, awareness the ideas of high technology thinkers and critics, and to promote future discussion related to the general population by the spirit of the forum X.
In 1999, Kurzweil created a hedge fund called FatKat (financial transactions faster adaptation Kurzweil Technologies) http://www.fatkat.com, which began operations in 2006. He said the ultimate goal is to improve the performance of artificial intelligence software Fatkat investment program, improving their ability to recognize patterns "Currency fluctuations and changes in ownership of shares." Predicted in his 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, which computers over time will be higher than the best human minds to economic affairs profitable investment decisions. In 2001, the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace released an album, Spiritual Machines, based on the book by Kurzweil. Kurzweil voice appeared on the album, reading excerpts from his book.
In June 2005, Ray Kurzweil presented the "Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader" (K-NFB Reader) portable device consists of a digital camera and the computer unit. As Kurzweil Reading Machine almost 30 years before the K-NFB Reader is designed to help the blind by reading a written text aloud. The new machine is portable and search texts through digital camera images, while the old machine is looking great and texts of the flatbed.
Ray Kurzweil is currently making a movie Launched in 2010, The Singularity Is Near: A True Story about the future based in part on his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near. Part of fiction, a non-fiction asked 20 thinkers like Marvin Minsky, the largest being a B-line narrative story that illustrates some ideas on a new computer avatar (Ramona) saves the world of self-replication of microscopic robots.
In addition to Kurzweil's movie, a documentary by independent film Kurzweil made on his life, his ideas and the man called transcendent. Filmmakers Barry and Felicia Ptolemy Kurzweil monitoring, documenting his conversation world tour. Created in 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival, the search for transcendent Man Ray documents reveal the final fate of humanity and explores many ideas in his best-seller The New York Times, book, The Singularity is Near, including his concept of growth exponential rate, the radical expansion of life, and how we will overcome our biology. The Ptolemies documented Ray stated aim to re-establish the use of his late father avian influenza. The film also shows the critics who oppose the predictions of Kurzweil.
Kurzweil said in a 2006 interview, C-SPAN2 is working in a new book focusing on the inner workings of the human brain and how it could apply to the construction of Amnesty International.
In an interview February 1, 2009 for Rolling Stone, Kurzweil expressed the desire to build a genetic copy of her late father, Frederic Kurzweil, from DNA in place of burial. This feat was accomplished through the deployment of different nano-robots to send DNA samples from the grave, building a clone of Fredric and memories of recovery and MindFit recollectionsrom his father Ray.
Books
Kurzweil's first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, was published in 1990. The documentary traces the history of IA and also makes forecasts on developments that may occur. Other experts in the field of AI contribute greatly to the work as evidence. Association American Publishers "awarded him the status of the most notable computer data in 1990.
So Kurzweil published a book on nutrition 1993 10% solution called Healthy Living. book's main idea is that high levels of fat consumption are the cause of many common health disorders in the United States and hence reducing fat intake to 10% of total calories would be optimal for most people.
In 1998, Ray Kurzweil published The Age of Spiritual Machines, which focuses heavily on his other theories shed light on the future of technology derived from its analysis of evolving trends technological and biological long-term. Much discussion will focus on the probable course of development of IA, and the future of computer architecture.
Kurzweil's next book, published in 2004, returns to the theme of health and human nutrition. Exceptional Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever was co-written by Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, a doctor and specialist in alternative medicine.
Near the Singularity was published in 2005. The book is currently in a movie with Pauley Perrette (NCIS), and scheduled for 2010 release.
In February 2007, Ptolemy Productions acquired the rights to The Singularity Is Near, The Machine Age spiritual, and Fantastic Voyage, including the rights to life and Kurzweil's ideas for the man transcends the film. The film was directed by Barry Ptolemy.
The last Kurzweil's book, Transcend nine steps of a life forever, a sequel to Fantastic Voyage, was released April 28, 2009.
The book is currently working that is called "How the mind works, and how a generation."
Recognition and Awards
Kurzweil has been called the successor and "legitimate heir to Thomas Edison and was also cited by Forbes magazine as "the ultimate thinking machine."
Kurzweil has received these awards, including:
First place in the International Exhibition of 1965 for the invention of the classic computer science synthesis of music.
In 1978, Murray Award Grace Hopper Association for Computing Machinery. The award is given annually to outstanding young computer professional "and is accompanied by a prize of $ 35,000. Ray Kurzweil has earned by his invention of the Kurzweil reading machine.
The 1990 "Engineer of the Year by Design News.
1994 Dickson Prize in Science. This prize is awarded every year by the Carnegie Mellon, which has "significantly advanced science." Two of a medal and a prize of $ 50,000 was awarded to winners.
The 1998 "Inventor of the Year" by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The National Medal of Technology 1999. This is the most highest honor the President of the United States can not granting individuals and groups pioneers of new technologies, and the President of the exemption in its discretion to bestow. Ray Kurzweil Bill Clinton presented the National Medal of Technology at a White House ceremony in recognition of Kurzweil development of information technology to help persons with disabilities.
Telluride Film Festival Award 2000 Tech technology Two others also received the same honor this year. The prize is awarded each year of people who "illustrate the life, times and the level of the contribution of Tesla, Westinghouse and Nunn."
In 2001, the Lemelson-MIT Prize for any the life of the developing technologies to help people with disabilities and enrich the arts. One becomes a huge success each year, half of his career as an inventor. A prize $ 500,000 accompanies the award.
Kurzweil was inducted into the Hall of Fame National Inventors in 2002 for inventing machine reading Kurzweil. The organization pays tribute to women and men responsible for great technological advances that allow human progress, socially and economically as possible. "Other fifteen were inducted into the Hall of Fame the same year.
The Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award April 20, 2009 for his outstanding career as an inventor and futurist technology computer.
In 2008, Arizona and the Experimental Group after "The Singularity Is Near" was formed, after changing its name to "Ray Kurzweil Face "in 2009. Now they are considered one of the most influential musical of Arizona in recent years, awareness of the ideas that change the Ray world and inventions, in particular how humans relate to technology and the universe in 4060 years.
Kurzweil has received honorary degrees sixteen that many institutions:
Type degree
College
Graduation Year
Doctor Honoris Causa Letters
Hofstra University
1982
An honorary doctorate of music
Berklee College of Music
1987
Honorary Doctor of Science
Northeastern University
1988
Doctor Science Honoris Causa
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1988
Honorary Doctor of Engineering
Merrimack College
1989
Doctor Honoris Cause of Arts
Misericordia University
1989
Honorary Doctor of Science
New Institute of Technology, New Jersey
1990
Doctor Honoris Cause of Science
Queens College, City University of New York
1991
Honorary Doctor of Science
Dominican College
1993
Honorary Doctorate Humanities
Michigan State University
2000
Honorary Doctor of Letters
Landmark College
2002
Honorary Doctor of Science
Institute Worcester Polytechnic
2005
Honorary Doctor of Science
DePaul University
2006
Honorary Doctor of Science
Bloomfield College
2007
Honorary Doctor of Science
McGill University
2008
Honorary Doctor of Science
Clarkson University
2009
The participation in futurism and transhumanism
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After several years of close collaboration trends in the computer industry track and machine, Kurzweil came to one conclusion: the rate of innovation of computer technology has increased non-linear, but exponential. With this, Kurzweil formed a method of predicting the evolution of technology. As a researcher, Computer, Kurzweil also understood that there was no technical reason that this type of behavior can not continue growth in 21 century.
Given that growth in many areas of science and technology depends on the computing power, These improvements translate into improvements to human knowledge and not by computer science such as nanotechnology, biotechnology and materials science. Given the exponential growth continued capacity of the computer, which means lots of new technologies will be available long before most intuitively peopleho linearly advancexpect technology. This idea is expressed by Kurzweil "law of accelerating returns."
Kurzweil projects that by 2050 medical advances allow people to extend their shelf life considerably, while maintaining and even improving the quality of life, and at what age. The aging process can be slow at first, then stopped, then reversed that new and better medical technologies became available. Kurzweil argues that much of this is due to medical advances nanotechnology, microscopic machines that can travel through your body and repair all types of damage at the cellular level. But corresponding changes will take place in the field of information technology as they become increasingly powerful, numerous and flights by 2050. Kurzweil predicted that a computer will pass the test Turing in 2029 proving to have a mind (intelligence, self-awareness, emotional richness) indistinguishable from a human. He predicted that the first AI is built around of a computer simulation of a human brain, which is possible thanks to previous tours, nanotechnology-brainscanning. AI machine could handle the full range of intellectual and human tasks would be both emotional and self-consciousness. Kurzweil suggests that the AIS, inevitably, much smarter and more powerful than human beings unreinforced. Suggested that the investigating authority shall provide moral thought and respect for their human ancestors. According to their estimates, the line between humans and machines blurred as a natural part of technological evolution. cybernetic implants greatly enhance human cognitive and physical capabilities, and allow a direct interface between humans and machines.
Kurzweil's standing as a leading futurist and transhumanist won its important functions among relevant organizations:
In December 2004, Kurzweil joined the advisory board of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
In October 2005, Kurzweil joined the Scientific Advisory Board Rescue Foundation.
On May 13, 2006, Kurzweil was the first speaker at the University of the Singularity Summit at Stanford.
In February 2009, Kurzweil, in collaboration Google and NASA Ames Research Center, University announced the creation of the Singularity. self-described mission of the university is "to unite, educate and inspire a group of leaders who seek to understand and facilitate the development of advanced technologies and applies exponentially, focus and guide the tools to deal great challenges to humanity. "Using Kurzweil singularity concept as a foundation, the University, the first class of 40 students began their graduate program of nine weeks in June 2009, offers students the skills and tools to guide the process of singularity "for the benefit of humanity and its environment." Singularity U covers interdisciplinary studies in a dozen scientists and possible future, taught by industry experts.
Stand on nanotechnology
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Climate change
Kurzweil is the Army's Scientific Advisory Board, testified before Congress on the subject of nanotechnology, and sees great potential in science to address important global issues like poverty, disease change, and climate, ie. Nanotech Could Give Global Warming a Big Chill (July 2006).
He predicts nanobots will be used to keep the human body and prolong human life.
Kurzweil has shown greater potential hazards of nanotechnology, but argues that in practice, can not stop progress, and any attempt to slow the progression technologies defense and more good than harm, which increases the danger. He said that instead of the regulation is to move as the product safely and quickly. We applied this reasoning to biotechnology, artificial intelligence and technology in general. [Citation needed]
The law of accelerating returns
Main article: Acceleration Change
In his controversial 2001 essay, "The law of diminishing returns acceleration," Kurzweil proposes an extension of Moore's law that forms the basis of the concept of "technological singularity."
Predictions
Main article: The predictions made by Raymond Kurzweil
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The Age of Intelligent Machines
No doubt Kurzweil acquired a lot credibility as a futurist from his first book The Age of Intelligent Machines. It was written from 1986 to 1989 and published in 1990. Based on Ithiel de Sola Pool Technologies of Freedom "(1983), Kurzweil predicted the demise of the Soviet Union because of new technologies such as mobile mobile phones and fax cripple authoritarian governments by removing state control over information flows. In Kurzweil's book also extrapolate existing trends to improve the performance of software failures to correctly predict that computers beat the best human players in 1998, and most likely this year. In fact, event took place in May 1997 when the World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by the IBM computer Deep Blue in a highly publicized chess tournament. Perhaps the most important Kurzweil predicted the explosive growth of Internet use worldwide that began in the 1990's. At the time of publication The Age of Intelligent Machines, had only 2.6 million Internet users worldwide, and the medium was unreliable, difficult to use, and lack of content, which Kurzweil reach their potential future especially prophetic, given the limitations of technology at the time. He said that the Internet would explode not only in the number of users but in content, and, possibly, give users access "to international networks of libraries, databases and information services." Additionally, Kurzweil correctly predicted the preferred user access to wireless Internet would be inevitable, and also had reason to believe that it would become practical for widespread use in the 21 st century.
Kurzweil also accurately forecast that by the 1990s, many documents only exist on computers and the Internet, and is commonly integrates with sounds, animations and videos that could prevent their transfer to the paper. Moreover, it was expected that cell phones grow in popularity, while reducing the size for the foreseeable future.
The Age of Spiritual Machines
In 1999, Kurzweil published a second book entitled The Machine Age spiritual, which goes into explaining their futuristic ideas. The third and final section of the book is devoted to the elucidation of the specific courses technological advances Kurzweil predicts that the world will experience over the next century. Titled "To face the future", the section is divided four chapters, respectively, called "2009", "2019", "2029" and "2099." In each chapter, Kurzweil made predictions about what life and technology be like this year.
Despite the veracity of Kurzweil's predictions beyond 2009 are yet to be determined, many ideas of "2009" chapter was reviewed. For starters, Kurzweil says that 2009 would be a year of continuous evolution as purely electronic computer memory has continued to replace the rotation age seems to contradict the report continued rapid growth of disk capacity and unit sales, while flash drives large capacity are not yet taken in high volume applications. However, solid state storage is the preferred means of storage in low- volume, as readers play MP3, portable consoles, cell phones and digital cameras. Many companies produce a disk of 256 GB solid state for use on laptops and desktops, but these units cost more than $ 600 storage decision costs almost five times the price of storage in the comparable hard disk. In addition, Kurzweil correctly predicted the growing ubiquity of wireless Internet access and wireless computer devices. Perhaps most important, Kurzweil heralded the explosive growth of file-sharing technology peer-to-peer and the emergence of the Internet as an important way for trade and access to media such as movies, television, newspapers and magazines, music and text. He also said the computer chips in three dimensions is in general use in 2009 (even more, "2-D chips that still prevail). But even if IBM has recently developed chip stacking technology and announced plans to begin using chips in three dimensions on supercomputers and wireless communication applications, the chip-stacking technology remains low volume in 2009.
The Singularity Is Near
Although this book focuses on the future of technology and the human race is the age of intelligent machines and The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurzweil recently specific predictions in the short term in The Singularity Is Near, if long-term visions are present in abundance. He recently discussed the uniqueness of Vice Magazine and was filmed for a documentary on the magazine's online network VBS.tv.
Work on nutrition, health and fashion life
Ray Kurzweil admits that he cared very little about his health until age 35 when he was diagnosed with an intolerance tolerance glucose, an early form of type II diabetes (a major risk factor for heart disease). Kurzweil then found a doctor who shares your beliefs unconventional to develop a pattern of extremes in which hundreds of pills, iv chemical treatments, red wine and other methods to try to live longer.
Kurzweil believes that technological progress is radically throughout the 21 st century will ultimately lead to the discovery of ways to reverse aging, cure illness, injury and repair of irreparable now. Kurzweil has been a lifestyle that follows is to increase your chances to live to see the day when Science can be immortal. Kurzweil calls this "bridge to bridge to bridge" strategy: The first bridge at the time Life is the Kurzweil system, while bridges second and third are based on advanced biotechnology and nanotechnology, respectively, which have not yet been invented. Kurzweil believes that life expectancy is increasing longest human beings as immortality and the establishment of the successfully implemented the first "bridge" can now reach the second in the future, which achieves the third time.
Some elements of lifestyle typical of Kurzweil. Often the exercises are not overeating, and not to abuse recreational drugs. Many other However, are controversial and may be explained by his obsession with life as long as possible. Kurzweil ingests "250 supplements, eight to 10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea each day and drink several glasses of red wine a week in an effort to "reprogram" their biochemistry. Recently, it has reduced the number pills to fill 150.
Although it is not compatible with science, Kurzweil and many others believe that consuming large amounts of water needed to wash the toxins from the body, and that alkaline water helps the body maintain important enzymes that are used to neutralize the acid metabolic wastes. For this reason, hates Kurzweil drinks and coffee that are both acid. Kurzweil believes that acidic drinks drain reserves detoxifying enzymes. Kurzweil has taken criticism from nutritionists and scientists to defend Alkaline water benefits alleged health and other unconventional beliefs, and he has responded to this information through the Internet. Green tea and red wine contains antioxidants that neutralize free radicals. Kurzweil also consumes red wine, because it contains resveratrol, a compound that can help fight heart disease according to some tests, but also an enhancer of breast cancers may exceed any benefits it offers. Kurzweil also pills that contain high concentrations of the substance due to the amount in red wine is very contradictory.
The weekend also undergoes Kurzweil transfusions with the cocktail of chemicals intravenously in a clinic to reprogram your biochemistry. Regularly measured the chemical composition of their own body fluids, undergo medical tests of choice for many diseases and disorders, and keep detailed records on the content of every meal you eat. On this last note, eats only food Kurzweil organic low glycemic load and says it has been years since I last that contain sugar consumed. Kurzweil believes that foods rich in sugars and carbohydrates to be in poor health since the peak glucose and insulin in the blood, leading to health problems long term. Instead, eat vegetables, lean meats, tofu, low carb and glycemic load, and is only used extra virgin olive oil for cooking. Kurzweil also diligently eating foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids (Including small, wild salmon).
In addition, Kurzweil is a priority to get enough sleep for physical and psychological health, and maintains the Low stress in part, to meditate and to massage a week. He exercises daily for walking, cycling and use of exercise machines, but warns against High impact forms of exercise. Kurzweil says his rigorous efforts have yielded positive results, pointing to his business partner selling vitamins who says his "age biological "is more than a decade younger than their chronological age. In fact, Kurzweil says his health plan personnel slowed the pace of aging. It also calls for maintaining a weight slightly below average in the soil that gives life a certain extent the benefits of total caloric restriction.
Kurzweil joined the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a cryonics company. In the case of his death, the body Kurzweil chemically preserved, frozen in nitrogen liquid and stored in the Alcor facility in the hope that future medical technology will be able to revive him.
Kurzweil is the author of three books on the issue of nutrition, health and immortality: the 10% solution for a healthy life, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to a life forever. In total, we recommend that other people emulate their health practices, to the best of their abilities.
Kurzweil and his current medical anti-aging " Dr. Terry Grossman. You now have two websites to promote his first book and the second, and sell their "product of longevity", many of which are in sites medical alert scam.
Position on religion
Although parents are Jewish Kurzweil, who raised him as a unit and exposed to many different religions during his youth. Kurzweil gave a speech at the United Church of Christ 2007 in Hartford, Connecticut, along with Barack Obama, who is the presidential candidate. In The Singularity Is near "expresses the need for a new religion based on the principle of mutual respect between sentient life forms, and the principle of respect for knowledge. This religion is not a leader, instead of being purely personal to the members.
According to Kurzweil that the primary role of traditional religion is the rationalization deathist rationalizationhat the tragedy of death as a good thing. To benefit the singularity can bring, we must overcome our deathist rationalization. We have to sweep the traditional religion our road.59]
"Religious tradition could help reduce technological innovation, transhumanists accuse the religious leaders to maintain a direct interest in the provenance issues of death and immortality. One of the obstacles to advance to the cybernetic immortality is the religion, they say. Religion located on the road. Religion threatens to block progress. This is because religion has always tried to offer a palliative for people facing death. The Religion provides acceptance of death, and comfort that acceptance. Ready for combat with traditional religion, a way of Prometheus Kurzweil wants to challenge the death and the use of nanotechnology as a weapon to conquer death. "
Comments
Even beyond the philosophical arguments about whether a machine can "think" (see philosophy of artificial intelligence), Kurzweil's ideas have generated much criticism in the scientific community and the media. Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation, called the notion of a technological singularity "intelligent design for the IQ of 140 people … This proposal as we move towards that point where everything is going to be incredibly differentt is, basically, in my opinion, led by a religious impulse. And all the frantic arm waving can not obscure that fact for me. "
VR pioneer Jaron Lanier was one of the harshest critics of Kurzweil's ideas, describing and total ybernetic (totalitarianism), and shared his views on the culture surrounding the outlook Kurzweil Edge.org in an essay entitled to half of a Manifesto.
Winner Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach said of Kurzweil and Hans Moravec's books: "It's like a lot of really good food and dog excrement and blended However, to not be possible to develop what is good or bad. This intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it is very difficult to separate the two, because they are people smart, not stupid. "
Although the idea of a technological singularity is a popular concept in science-fiction writers like Neal Stephenson and Bruce Sterling expressed skepticism about the credibility of the real world. Sterling expressed his opinion about the scene of the singularity in a speech to the Long Foundation Now entitled The Singularity: Your Future as a black hole. Amnesty International and other leading IT thinkers like Daniel Dennett, Rodney Brooks and David Gelernter also criticized Kurzweil forecasts.
Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, according to the timetable for further progress of Kurzweil, but believes that technologies such as Amnesty International, the advanced biotechnology and nanotechnology will create a dystopian world.
Daniel Lyons, writing in Newsweek, criticized by some of Kurzweil's predictions turned out to be false as the economy continues to prosper after 1998 of the dotcom boom in 2009, a U.S. company stock of market of more than $ 1 billion, a 20-petaflop supercomputer embodiment, speech recognition is widely used and cars drive themselves using sensors inserted on the roads, the whole of 2009. To load only 20 petaflop supercomputer was not planned time, Kurzweil said he believes a giant supercomputer Google, and is capable of 20 petaflops.
Biologist PZ Myers criticized Kurzweil's predictions are based on "New Age spirituality rather than science and Kurzweil says no understand the fundamental biology. Myers also said Kurzweil collects and selects the events that seem to show an exponential increase in demand leads to a technological singularity, and ignore events that do not.
See also
The acceleration of change
Paradigm Shift
reality show
Singularity University
Technological Singularity
Transhumanism
Transcendent Man (film)
Predictive Medicine
Genome sequencing full
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^ singinst.org
^ lifeboat.com
^ Sfgate.com
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^ Nanotech Could Give Global Warming a Big Chill (July 2006)
^ Machines to match man by 2029. "BBC News. 16/02/2008. Http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7248875.stm. Retrieved 17/02/2008.
^ ab "Features: Ray Kurzweil," CSPAN-2 Book TV Accessed 05/11/2006 20/02/2007 Http :….. / / Web.archive.org/web/20070220014203/http: / / www.booktv.org/ function / index.asp? Next make = 7.515 and Sched = 457. Retrieved on 17/02/2008. Minutes from 85 to 147, 167 and 173 in three one-hour interview
^ "Features: Ray Kurzweil (RealAudio). Book TV. Http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/1106/arc_btv110506_4.ram. Retrieved on 17/02/2008. Direct link to 3 hours of interviews Kurzweil
^ "The law of diminishing returns Accelerate"
decrease in the use of the Internet: ^ Fleeing the dot.com era
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^ IBM extends Moore's Law into the third dimension
^ Ray Kurzweil, singularity Guy Vice magazine. April 2009
YouTube ^ Video: Ray Kurzweil's Singularity
^ Wired News: "Never Say Die: Live Forever
^ Glenn Beck Interview with Ray Kurzweil
^ Five myths about water
^ Ray Kurzweil takes care of alkaline ionized water
^ Article on resveratrol Quackwatch.org
^ De Fantasic trip
^ Ray and Terry
^ List supplements Quackwatch.org, etc.
Ab ^ Simon A. Young and Robert Freitas (2005). Designer evolution, P. 372, Prometheus Books, ISBN 13-9781591022909.
O'Keefe ^, Brian (2/5/2007). "The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth." Fortune. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100008848/. Retrieved 28.08.2008.
^ Lanier, Jaron. "Half of a Manifesto." Edge.org. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier/lanier_p1.html. Retrieved 28.08.2008.
^ Ross, Greg. "An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter. Scientific American. Http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/douglas-r-hofstadter. Retrieved on 08/28/2008.
^ Miller, Robin (10/20/2004). "Neal Stephenson responded with wit and humor." Slashdot. http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/1518217. Retrieved on 08/28/2008. "My thoughts are more in line with those of Jaron Lanier, who points out that while the material could be faster and faster all the time, the software is crap (I'm paraphrasing his argument). And without software to do something useful with all that equipment, no team more a heater too complicated. "
^ Brand, Stewart (14/06/2004). Bruce Sterling – "The Singularity: Your Future as a black hole," "The Long Now http://blog.longnow.org/2004/06/14/bruce-sterling-the-singularity-your-future-as-a Foundation .. Black hole /. Retrieved on 08/06/2009.
^ Sterling, Bruce. "The Singularity: Your Future as a black hole" (MP3). http://media.longnow.org/seminars/salt-0200406-sterling/salt-0200406-sterling.mp3. "This is an addition late to the notion of history as the end of the story ideas, showing their age. "
^ Dennett, Daniel. "The Reality Club: Half A Manifesto "Edge.org Http: … / / Www.edge.org / speech / jaron_manifesto.html # Dennett" "I'm glad Lanier entertains the feeling that Dawkins and I (and Hofstadter and others) "see a flaw in logic that insulates [our] thinking eschatological implications" produced by Kurzweil and Moravec. That's right. For I personally do not see a flaw, and I hope that Dawkins and Hofstadter would say the same. ""
^ Brooks, Rodney. "The Reality Club: Half of a Manifesto." Edge.org. http://www.edge.org/discourse/jaron_manifesto.html # streams. "I'm not at all agree with predictions of Kurzweil and Moravec an eschatological cataclysm, just in time for their own memories and thoughts and the person to cover to be preserved before they might otherwise die. "
^ Transcript of debate Short-term viability of Amnesty International (led by Rodney Brooks), "Gelernter, Kurzweil debate machine consciousness." KurzweilAI.net. http://www.edge.org/discourse/jaron_manifesto.html # Streams.
^ Joy, Bill (April 2000). "Why the future does not need us." Wired Http: / /. Www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html Retrieved 21/09/2008 .. "… It is only in the fall of 1998, I realized how worried are the dangers we face in the 21st century. I can date the onset of my unease the day I met Ray Kurzweil … "
Ab ^ Lyons, Daniel (May 2009). "I, Robot." Newsweek. http://www.newsweek.com/id/197812/page/2. Retrieved on 22/05/2009. "At the height of the dotcom bubble in 1998, Kurzweil predicts that the economy right to continue to grow until 2009 (and until 2019 for that matter) and that an American company (not saying who) have a market capitalization market of over $ 1 billion. Not far from there. Kurzweil also predicted that by 2009 a supercomputer will be capable of achieving top 20 billion operations per second (20 petaflops in computer lingo), like the human brain. In fact, the top supercomputer just to break the petaflop markhough Kurzweil said he considers all of Google with a giant supercomputer and is, in fact, capable of 20 petaflops. Kurzweil predicts that by now, our vehicles can be carried by communication with smart sensors embedded in roads, and speech recognition is widely used. "
^ Lyons, Daniel (May 2009). "I, Robot." Newsweek. http://www.newsweek.com/id/197812. Retrieved on 07/24/2009. "However, many people think that Kurzweil is crazy and / or complete a byproduct of a common disorder of biological functions. Include PZ Myers, University of Minnesota biologist, Morris, who used his blog to mock futurist Kurzweil and other armchair, by Myers, based on junk science and not understanding the basic biology. "I am completely puzzled by order of popularity Kurzweil, and in particular the respect in some circles, and that their claims do not withstand scrutiny, even by accident, " Myers wrote. He says that the theories of Kurzweil singularity closer to the illusion of a religious movement are to science. "It's spiritualismhat New Age is all that is, "Mr. Myers said." Even the geeks want to find God somewhere, Kurzweil and provides for them. "
Myers ^ Paul Zachary (February 2009). "It is remarkable uniqueness ridiculous" Http: / /. Scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/02/singularly_silly_singularity.php Retrieved 24/07/2009 ..
External Links
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Singularity University, Ray Kurzweil, Chancellor
transcendent man – Official Site. Film about Ray Kurzweil
Singularity is Near Movie (2009) – Official Website
The singularity A full documentary on the Singularity (2010) – Official Website
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Machine of Dreams – CIO Magazine interview, October 15, 2004
The war in the 21 st Century – The distance, robotics, robust, small, Virtual Reality Paradigm – Conference Keynote, 24th Army Science Conference, November 29, 2004
TED Talks: Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us in the TED 2005 (audio / video)
Robot Wars – News @ nature site interview, February 8, 2005
The future, just around the corner, The Economist March 10, 2005
The Council on Foreign Relations; Future for the exponential growth of technology exponentially reducing, November 30, 2005
Talk NPR Interview of the Nation Science Friday – December 23, 2005
The Singularity Summit at Stanford, May 2006
Human v 2.0: Ray Kurzweil vs. Hugo de Garis October 24, 2006
November 25 Army of the Annual Conference of Science 27, 2006 hosted the Web presentation, slides, video
Debate between Ray Kurzweil and David Gelernter in MIT from November 30, 2006
Web 3.0 – How the next version of Internet Singularity prepare us for the December 11, 2006
– The Edge Annual Question – 2007; What are optimistic about? Why?
Interview with Ray Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil and examples of main Interwoven GearUp Podcast
Ray Kurzweil interview C-SPAN2 Book TV, 3 hours
The smartest futurist on Earth – CNN Money article May 2, 2007
Accelerate the change in presentation Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), Third Conference, Queens' College, Cambridge, England, September 9, 2007
Glenn Beck Interview with Ray Kurzweil, May 30, 2008 and the transcript of the interview.
Interview on NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday – June 6, 2008
Audio: Ray Kurzweil in the conversation on the BBC World Service Discussion Forum
Raymond Kurzweil at the Internet Movie Database
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