Quotes by Ray Kurzweil

“The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycl...”

“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron itself, but rather an assembly of neurons, which I estimate to number ...”

“The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.”

“Play is just another version of work”

“The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.”

“The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.”

“Recall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the random movements of evolutionary change. Molecules in a gas move randomly with no apparent sense o...”

“Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet wed find it hard to live wi...”

“A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the problems of the world has steadily improved. If there is a battle today somewhere on the planet,...”

“We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks We need to vastly increase our investment in developing specific defensive technologies We are at the critical stage toda...”

“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 singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller an...”

“By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.”

“If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.”

“I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.”

“Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.”

“Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these ...”

“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civ...”

“A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.”

“When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.”