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Ray Kurzweil
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 12
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
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It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.
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The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
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All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.
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In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.
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Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.
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Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.
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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
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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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If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.
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What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.
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The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.
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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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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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The past is over the present is fleeting we live in the future.
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As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't go away but the nonbiological portion will be much more powerful. And it will be uploaded automatically the way we back up everything now that's digital.
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Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.
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We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.
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Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.
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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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The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.
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