[ba-unrev-talk] Edge:
I just was browsing http://www.edge.org and found this item on the front
page that I thought others would be interested in. Sounds like
Kurzweil's talking about a DKR at the end there. (01)
Regards, (02)
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-- Grant Bowman <grantbow@grantbow.com> (03)
THE SINGULARITY: A TALK WITH RAY KURZWEIL [3.25.02]
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Ray Kurzweil: EdgeVideo (8:37 min.)
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We are entering a new era. I call it "the Singularity." It's a merger
between human intelligence and machine intelligence that is going to
create something bigger than itself. It's the cutting edge of evolution
on our planet. One can make a strong case that it's actually the
cutting edge of the evolution of intelligence in general, because
there's no indication that it's occurred anywhere else. To me that is
what human civilization is all about. It is part of our destiny and
part of the destiny of evolution to continue to progress ever faster,
and to grow the power of intelligence exponentially.To contemplate
stopping that -- to think human beings are fine the way they are -- is
a misplaced fond remembrance of what human beings used to be. What
human beings are is a species that has undergone a cultural and
technological evolution, and it's the nature of evolution that it
accelerates, and that its powers grow exponentially, and that's what
we're talking about. The next stage of this will be to amplify our own
intellectual powers with the results of our technology. (07)