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Kurt Andersen wonders: If the Singularity is near, will it bring about global techno-Nirvana or civilizational ruin? Kurt Andersen, 26/11/2014 
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Ray Kurzweil is sitting in an office in San Francisco’s tallest building overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Over 45 minutes, speaking rapidly in monotone sentences dense with facts and ideas, Google’s director of engineering has outlined a future for the world that would seem incredible, were it not that this man has a 30-year track record of making seemingly bonkers predictions that have proved to be accurate. Among other things, Kurzweil predicted that the internet would become central to our lives when it was still a niche and unreliable network in the Eighties...
Pierre Tran's insight:
Les prédictions de Ray Kurzweil, jusqu'en 2040. L'apôtre de la singularité nous dévoile qu'en 2029, Google sera en mesure de créer un ordibateur capable de comprendre le langage naturel et les émotions humaines.
Marta Torán's curator insight,
January 21, 2014 3:02 PM
Las predicciones de un ingeniero de Google que acostumbra a acertar.
Google del Cerebro - que entenderá las emociones y el lenguaje natural. Coches autodirigidos Un mundo sin obesidad Detener el envejecimiento Ropa que se imprime en casa
Y más...
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Thank God. Late last Friday, Google announced a jaw-dropping hire: Ray Kurzweil will join the company as a Director of Engineering. Has the world’s brainiest tech company suddenly bought into Kurzweil’s“rapture of the nerds” b.s. “technological singularity” ideas? Hardly. They’ve just signed The Singularity’s death warrant by putting its chief proselytizer to work doing what he does best: inventing better machines for the real world, not writing science fiction. For this, Larry Page should get some kind of medal.
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Quand on s'intéresse à ce que le monde du numérique dit du corps et de la vie, il y a des chances pour qu'on tombe assez vite sur des prédictions intimidantes : « bientôt, nous serons tous des cyborgs », « en 2045, nous aurons complètement fusionné avec les machines » et. Un des spécialistes de ce genre de déclarations, c’est un type du nom de Ray Kurzweil – dont je vous ai déjà parlé ici. Inventeur assez génial, homme d’affaire avisé, Kurweil est devenu depuis une vingtaine d’années le promoteur d’un courant qu’on appelle le transhumanisme... Xavier de la Porte, 09/05/2014
Pierre Tran's insight:
Quand Ray Kurzweil se fait remettre à sa place
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In an exclusive with Singularity Hub, Ray Kurzweil gave one of his first interviews since the December announcement that he joined Google full time as Director of Engineering. Speaking with Keith Kleiner, Ray discusses his new role, how his research interests connect with his latest book How To Create A Mind (which Keith recently interviewed Ray about here), and how technology will advance to produce a "cybernetic friend.
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Duel entre les partisans de la singularité (Ray Kurzweil) et les sceptiques (Jaron Lanier, Mitch Kapor, Paul Allen, Elon Musk...)