Ray Kurzweil
| Speaking via remote connection at this year's Creative Technologies conference, futurist and Google engineering head Ray Kurzweil explained how artificial intelligence will soon provide tools for creative professionals, even able to incorporate the human characteristic of wit. |
Speaking with Magical Nihilism's Matt Jones, Ray Kurzweil, in California via Google Hangout at CreateTech 2013 explained how computer technology will become a creative partner with people. (Videos below).
"Computers now are enabling creativity," said Kurzweil. "My view is we're going to continue with the same strategy - enhancing our capabilities. We are literally making ourselves smarter with our computers."
Creativity is also explored in Kurzweil's latest book, How to Create a Mind. He explains how important metaphors are for human creativity citing the example of how Darwin was inspired to create the theory of evolution by Charles Lyell's theories on geology. According to Kurweil, even our words are each metaphors.
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It is not that the neocortex is more sophisticated, it is the additional quantity of it that is the enabling factor for humans to create language, and our other advanced facilities according to Kurzweil. "Most of the neocortex now is essentially biological," Kurweil reminds us. "Ultimately we will expand our neocortex with a greater quantity, this time not biologically."
"This will allow us to take another qualitative leap," he says.
The Creative Technologies Conference (CreateTech) brings together the most eclectic group of inspiring speakers to investigate the nexus of creativity and technology in marketing and culture.
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