{"id":183259,"date":"2017-03-17T06:40:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T10:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/futurist-ray-kurzweil-ai-human-merger-only-12-yrs-away-trunews\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T06:40:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T10:40:32","slug":"futurist-ray-kurzweil-ai-human-merger-only-12-yrs-away-trunews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/futurist-ray-kurzweil-ai-human-merger-only-12-yrs-away-trunews\/","title":{"rendered":"Futurist Ray Kurzweil: AI-human merger only 12 yrs away &#8211; TRUNEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Google's Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil believes    a technological singularity will turn some people into super    humans by 2029  <\/p>\n<p>    (VERO BEACH, FLA) During an interview on March 13th at the 2017 SXSW    tech conference self described futurist Ray Kurzweil said he    believes a singularity, where carbon and silicon-based    intelligence will merge to form a single global consciousness,    will occur in the next 12 years.  <\/p>\n<p>    Kurzweil said this singularity would create a cybernetic    society including humans with computers in their brains and    machines smarter than their creators.  <\/p>\n<p>    'By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence,'    Kurzweil said. That leads to computers having human    intelligence, our putting them inside our brains, connecting    them to the cloud, expanding who we are.  <\/p>\n<p>    Today, that's not just a future scenario, Kurzweil continued.    It's here, in part, and it's going to accelerate.  <\/p>\n<p>    Kurzweil said that machines are already enhancing humans and by    connecting chips to the neocortex in our brains this effect    will exponentially increase.  <\/p>\n<p>    We're going to get more neocortex, we're going to be funnier,    we're going to be better at music, we're going to be sexier,    Kurzweil said. We're going to really exemplify all the    attributes we value in humans to a greater degree.  <\/p>\n<p>    Kurzweil, who has long been active in the tech sector and is the    author toeight books on the subject of trans-humanism    including, The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999); The    Singularity is Near (2005); and Visions of the Future (2015),    has previously made147 predictions with 86 percent of them    coming true.  <\/p>\n<p>    In the same realm of techno-philosophy, the US National Science    Foundation predicted in the early 2000s that network-enhanced    telepathy  the process of sending thoughts over the internet     would be practical and implementable by the 2020s.  <\/p>\n<p>    The term singularity was first used in the 1950s by a    Manhattan-project mathematician named John von Neumann.  <\/p>\n<p>    Ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the    mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching    some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond    which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue, Von    Neumann wrote.  <\/p>\n<p>    Kurzweil cited von Neumann's term in a foreword to von    Neumann's classic The Computer and the Brain. Neumann was    also part of the inspiration for the maniacal former Nazi    scientistdepicted in Stanley Kubricks 1964    dark-humored apocalypticfilm, Dr. Strangelove or: How I    Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.  <\/p>\n<p>    In 2015, Alt-media commentator and author Mark Dice, who has    accumulated over 315 million views on his YouTube videos, said Transhumanists are dangerous    psychopaths.  <\/p>\n<p>    Dice was referencing a 2014 quote from a self affirming Transhumanist    named Richard Seed, who previously won a noble peace prize in    1998 for his work in economics and gained global notoriety on    December 5, 1997 when he announced that he    planned to clone a human being before any federal laws could be    enacted to ban the process.  <\/p>\n<p>    We are going to become Gods, period, Seed said. If you dont like it, get    off.You dont have to contribute, you dont have to    participate, but if you are going to interfere with me becoming    a God, youre going to have trouble. Therell be warfare.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    At the 2017 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain,    TRUNEWS host Rick Wiles was told by keynote speakers that the    integration of computers into human beings is a goal being    pursed by the same architects behind the implementation of an    Artificially Intelligent (AI) ubiquitously    connectedGlobal Brain.  <\/p>\n<p>    TRUNEWS copy, TRUNEWS    analysis  <\/p>\n<p>      Donate Today!    <\/p>\n<p>      We believe Christians need and deserve their own global news      network to keep the worldwide Church informed, and to offer      Christians a positive alternative to the anti-Christian      bigotry of the mainstream news media    <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trunews.com\/article\/futurist-ray-kurzweil-ai-human-merger-only-12-yrs-away\" title=\"Futurist Ray Kurzweil: AI-human merger only 12 yrs away - TRUNEWS\">Futurist Ray Kurzweil: AI-human merger only 12 yrs away - TRUNEWS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Google's Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil believes a technological singularity will turn some people into super humans by 2029 (VERO BEACH, FLA) During an interview on March 13th at the 2017 SXSW tech conference self described futurist Ray Kurzweil said he believes a singularity, where carbon and silicon-based intelligence will merge to form a single global consciousness, will occur in the next 12 years. 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