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" Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era. "

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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. "

Ray Kurzweil

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Intelligence

" I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything. "

" 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. "

" My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google. "

" 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. "

" Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. "

" Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. "

" 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. "

" Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills. "

" All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. "

" By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. "

" Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow. "

" Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings. "

" Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. "

" As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up. "

Ray Kurzweil

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Speeds

" By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate. "

" 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. "

" Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. "

Ray Kurzweil

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Science

" Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold. "

" 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. "

" I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. "

" By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter. "

" When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence. "

" Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes. "