Ray Kurzweil is Building a "Synthetic Neocortex"

 Ray Kurzweil  

Speaking recently at the Geek Park Innovation Conference in Beijing, Ray Kurzweil discussed his familiar themes of exponential technology, and stated that what he is trying to build at Google is a "synthetic neocortex."

Ray Kurzweil is regularly featured on 33rd Square, as one of the main originators of the concept of the Singularity.  As a frequent speaker, Kurzweil does bring up familiar themes of exponential growth of information technology, but it has been a few months since he has given a talk like this.

In the video above, Kurzweil, looking "different" speaks at the Geek Park Innovation Conference, in Beijing.

Kurzweil reminds the audience that the future is not far away from us, and that we must nowbe planning for it. Yesterday's unveiling of the HoloLens from Microsoft, only seems to reinforce that view.

"You see a lot of movies where there's one person that has the artificial intelligence and threatens the world. Its not going to be like that.  Artificial intelligence is not in one or two hands, its already in one or two billion hands and will be in everybody's hands within a decade."

When discussing the progress in biotechnology, the author of How to Create a Mind makes a prediction that, "It will be a very different era.  We are going to be able to dramatically extend human life starting in about 10 years from the exponential growth of biology."

Related articles Ray Kurzweil Looks At Innovations in Innovation  Your Thoughts Create Your Brain According to Ray Kurzweil  Ray Kurzweil On The Computers That Will Live In Our Brains

"I've been thinking about thinking for about 50 years," Kurzweil continues as he talks about the "synthetic neocortex," he is trying to build as Director of Engineering at Google. During an interview after the talk, Kurzweil goes into some of these themes in more detail.

He does address the recent increase of warnings against the future of artificial intelligence, by the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking.  According to Kurzweil, the extension of our thinking onto the cloud will keep artificial intelligence.  "You see a lot of movies where there's one person that has the artificial intelligence and threatens the world. Its not going to be like that.  Artificial intelligence is not in one or two hands, its already in one or two billion hands and will be in everybody's hands within a decade."


SOURCE  Geek Park

By 33rd Square

Embed