Will You Have a Relationship With Artificial Intelligence?

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Speaking at the Exponential Finance conference this week, Ray Kurzweil spoke of how by 2029 people will be having meaningful relationships 'at human levels.'

In less than two decades, you won't just use your computers, you may have relationships with them.

With artificial intelligence, computers will be able to read at human levels by 2029 and will also begin to have different human characteristics, according to Ray Kurzweil, the Director of engineering at Google.

"I'm talking about emotional intelligence. The ability to tell a joke, to be funny, to be romantic, to be loving, to be sexy, that is the cutting edge of human intelligence, that is not a sideshow."

"My timeline is computers will be at human levels, such as you can have a human relationship with them, 15 years from now," he said. Kurzweil's comments came at the Exponential Finance conference in New York this week.

CNBC and Singularity University partnered to present the two-day conference addressing upcoming, game-changing technologies and their imminent implications for the financial world.

Kurzweil, speaking remotely continued, "When I say about human levels, I'm talking about emotional intelligence. The ability to tell a joke, to be funny, to be romantic, to be loving, to be sexy, that is the cutting edge of human intelligence, that is not a sideshow."

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The Oscar winning movie Her, which was about a man who fell in love with his operating system, mirrors many of Kurzweil's predictions about how artificial intelligence will evolve.

The personalities of computers' operating system will be customizable for each user, he said, much like how the operating system, Samantha in the movie was portrayed.

Computers will also provide a way for humans to expand the range of their brains via the cloud, Kurzweil said. In the future people will be able to directly connect their brain to the cloud so that they can expand their knowledge and memory.

He added that technology is shrinking and computerized devices will eventually be as small as the size of blood cells and 2030 can be put into our brain.  Kurzweil remains firm on the predictions and dates of his book, The Singularity Is Near, and other works.




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