With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious… Does it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer at the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
