TED Talks Daily The last 6 decades of AI — and what comes next | Ray Kurzweil
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Jun 26, 2024 
Ray Kurzweil, a renowned futurist and AI visionary, takes listeners on a captivating journey through the last 60 years of artificial intelligence. He discusses AI's rapid evolution and its monumental impact on fields like medicine, predicting breakthroughs in vaccine development and cancer treatment. Kurzweil envisions a future where human and machine intelligences merge, touching on the profound implications for society, ethics, and human longevity by the 2030s.
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Early AI Optimism and Skepticism
- Ray Kurzweil has been involved with AI for 61 years, starting in 1962.
- Early AI pioneers held differing views, with some predicting human-level AI within a semester while others were more skeptical.
Human Tool Use and the Singularity
- Humans are unique in creating tools that enhance intelligence, unlike other species with comparable brains.
- The singularity will bring this tool-making ability into our minds, making us smarter.
Exponential Growth in Computation
- Kurzweil has tracked computational growth for 45 years, observing exponential progress.
- This exponential growth explains why large language models weren't possible decades ago but have rapidly advanced recently.