Ray Kurzweil Quotes
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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.
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My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.
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As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.
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No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.
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Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.
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I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.
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If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.
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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
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We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
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I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
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Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
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The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.
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What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.
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I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
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Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
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By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
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We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
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The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
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A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
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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.
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Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
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Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
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When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.
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I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.