12 years more people will be better than machines

Contrary to those who are afraid of enslaved humanity, Ray Kurzweil, Google's Chief Technology Officer, thinks that 12 years from now, people will be better off with supportive machines.

Ray Kurzweil, Google's Chief Technical Officer, is a famous futurist. Of his 147 predictions since the 1990s, the exact rate is 86%.

Earlier this week, at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, USA, Kurzweil made another prediction: Technological singularity will happen in the next 12 years. (Technological singularity or "singularity" - the singularity of technology , is a hypothesis that the invention of artificial intelligence will trigger technological development, coming when artificial intelligence will transcending the intellect and control of human beings leads to unpredictable changes to human civilization.

Kurzweil declared: "By 2029, computers will have intelligence at the human level." The prediction of when Kurzweil's technology singularity appeared two decades earlier than the other predictions, especially by Masbank's CEO, Softbank, who predicted the dawn of supercomputers Intelligent will happen in 2047.

Ray Kurzweil's prediction of singularity is about two decades earlier than many other predictions - (Photo: moneyinc).

For Kurzweil, the process of going to this singularity began, and he warned "it will accelerate".

In fact, we all know that singularity will happen, but the question is: Is humanity afraid of singularity? Often people think that when machines become smarter than humans, they tend to occupy the world. Many science and technology experts, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates, have warned of this future.

However, Kurzweil did not think so. He argues that when the singularity of technology appears, artificial intelligence (AI) will enslave humanity as fiction."That's not practical," he said.

In fact, Ray Kurzweil is not worried about singularity, even he seems to be expecting it. For Kurzweil, singularity is an opportunity for humanity to progress. Smarter AI will make intelligent human beings follow.

Ray Kurzweil was optimistic and expected singularity instead of fearing it like many other scientists - (Photo: Sciencealert).

"We don't have one or two AIs in the world but billions. What really happens is that they (machines) are providing energy to all of us. They make us smarter. They can yet in our bodies, but in the 2030s, they will connect with our new neocortex, a part of the brain where we put thoughts on cloud data , " he said. share.

The idea of ​​connecting the machine and this person is similar to Musk's controversial nerve thread and the "super smart" concept of Peter Diamandis, president of the XPRIZE Foundation.

Kurzweil explains how technology can improve people's lives when it comes to singularity: "We will have new cortex, we will be more happy, we will become better in music. "We will become more charming. We will lift and show all that we value in people to a higher level."

Kurzweil predicts in the 2030s, some technologies can go into the brain and help increase the capacity of human memory. Therefore, Kurzweil thought that it would be a future of beneficial human-machine combination.

Kurzweil said, "In the end, it (singularity) will affect everything. We will be able to meet the material needs of all people. We will expand our minds and show everything. the artistic qualities that we appreciate ".