Singularity Hub | Exclusive interview with Ray Kurzweil on How to Create a Mind
October 30, 2012
Singularity Hub’s Keith Kleiner interviews Ray Kurzweil about his new book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.
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Comments (16)
by Clay Rawlingsw
Wow. Great interview. Thank you Keith Kleiner for a mind expanding 30 minutes. With our election just days away I wish people would hear Ray’s message. We can solve our problems with creativity but people are consumed with worry over things that do mot matter and do not even see some of the very real problems on the horizon. I believe Ray wants to bring about the best in all of us. Go science, our greatest hope.
by The Singularity man
Am I imagining, or are they both sitting in a driving car without putting a safety belt ???
How can someone that want to live forever (and makes so much efforts to achieve it) be so irresponsible regarding to his life on the road ? are there no car accidents in the USA ?
What the law in the USA says about sitting in a car without a safety belt ?? is it legal ?
I’m really surprised.
by James
LOL!
Thank you for pointing that out. I think they were just driving around slowly and so they were not worried. Also, as for laws, I believe it is illegal not to wear a seat belt in passenger vehicles however, in vehicles driven by a professional driver (buses, taxis limos, etc…) I believe you do not have to wear one.
by The Singularity man
I don’t think that it’s funny.
“driving slowly” is not an excuse, you can drive slow and be the perfect driver when someone crossing a red light and hit you, or when someone hit you from behind, or a car coming from the other direction crashing you.
Look for example at minute 21:00 in the video, see how fast cars are coming from the other direction – what happen if one of them get off it’s course ?
What does he think that the pills that he takes will help him in a case of an accident ? I don’t think so.
You can see very clearly in the video that the car do have a seat belt, why not wearing it ? don’t you care about your life ? hospitals and cemeteries are full of people who said “It will never happen to me”.
I think that it’s a bad example for anyone watching this interview.
by Bri
I’m hoping that the driver was better than the camera man! For all the money and brains in that car, they could shure use some AI.
by Guillermo
I think that with a profesional driver, the chances of accident are greatly reduced, so although wearing a seatbelt would certainly helpful, it’s not as necessary. I mean anyone could increase their safety in all situations, but there’s a limit on what you should take care about if you also want to live. I just mean that they not having the seatbelt on, its pretty forgiveable, and even LOLable, because it’s such a minor real issue.
by Immortal
Confidence and not living in fear. Knowing that if a car did randomly smash into them wouldn’t be deathly. Maybe a few bumps and bruises that would heal. I drive without a seatbelt all the time. Come whatever may, I will not live in fear. And I will live for eternity.
by Human 2045
Are you sure ? even if it’s a truck ? or a car at 70 mph ?
It’s a limo, not a tank.
by Tony Stender
Emotion just determines whether we should move toward or away from a situation. Plus how much energy to use in the future should this situation or a similar situation should occur. When paired with language and the hierarchy of understanding that allows, is the thing most people call emotion. Duplicating it I think will be no more complicated than organizing concepts and relating them. which is what we do as we mature. Just today I read that the emotional circuit and the cognitive circuits are mutually exclusive in people. Only one can be conscious at a time. But we cycle between the two as we think. So emotion should be no more difficult than cognition.
by John
Actually liked Keith Kleiner’s drilling questions full of life and curiosity, most of all about AI’s headstart against human mind amplification. With all due respect, Ray’s response was an indefinite babble with no real meanining inside. He didn’t want to dwelve into what Keith was opening before him, only repeating in a vinyl style good old stuff about nanobots and patter recognizers. He’s like oh so important to not bother with scenarios he doesn’t like. Kinda sad.
by high carbfoods
How to create a Mind, is questioning what we know about mind. Fascinating but does it lead to truth, I am not sure. Ancient wisdom states mind is made of thoughts, no matter what. Remove all thoughts, mind disappears. Mind alone seems, cannot solve all problems. It deals with imagination, but cannot differentiate truth from untruth. This is its property. Something above and beyond mind only, seems, can claer this fog and that we are prompted to call super or supreme intelligence which is coded as hologram in the Akashic Field, which integrates all forces that physics has known up until now. So, if w can tap into A field, we are out of Mind, to read the cosmic Mind.
Does this make sense. only time can tell and ring a Bell!
by Marcos Marin
You should cut on high carbfoods like me.
by anthrobotic
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by Doz
I get the feeling that the celebrity side of Ray’s life is his least favourite. He doesn’t want people to just be mesmerized by him, and be fans of him…but instead be inspired by that type of thinking which leads to problems being solved and adding colour, enjoyment and prosperity to life.
Ay Bee,
We are not going to put early stages of A.I in charge of editing the news, so you don’t have to worry about that. Although FOX news could probably do with it.
What “IT” is you are referring to is non-biological intelligence. It is everywhere you look. We would be lost, and have to start over if AI were to disappear. The general message behind the singularity and future of AI is that intellect doesn’t just happen one day from pressing a button. Look at samples of biological life, and the variety of ways it interacts with it’s surroundings. It starts off very basic and simple, and over time can get more complex and adaptable to the environment. The process of evolution took millions of years to create our level of intelligence, which is not going to change now. What is changing (to which we’re catalyst to at this moment) at a blindingly fast comparison to biology is computational power and the potential this brings. We are not only understanding in greater detail how our brains work, but we’re essentially copying the brains learning algarithms to allow these intelligent processes to happen non-biologically.
Like Ray pointed out,”we” as in the *stuff* we are made of isn’t intelligent, just like silicon and transistors aren’t. But they allow intelligence to happen – and given the predictive nature in increasing computing power through time, these aren’t just dates pulled out of thin air because they sound nice, but extrapolations of trajectories that influence AI passing the language Turing test. I think it will happen before 2029 because the Turing Test talked about is based only on language and conversation through IM.
by Ay Bee
“It’s education? Until it learns it’s lessons??” Recreating a neocortex will do nothing useful because it’s not attached to a living thing!!! ‘It’, as well as all AI, can only make information from that which it has access to. It’s ‘logic’ is fundamentally the logic as determined by its programmer. 9:52 Emotional stuff is just a side-show? Create new knowledge? Music, Poetry, write a novel?? All ‘IT’ will do is rearrange information ‘IT’ has been provided and has access to! What if ‘IT’ begins to write the news??? What if ‘IT’ predetermines news from analyzing tweets or Facebook messages? What if ‘IT’ fabricates the news in order to analyze human reaction? What if ‘IT’ starts making things up? ‘Fabricating the Future’ by ‘IT’ is a real possibility!!! Also I’m not convinced about your view of ‘the Primary Application’ to integrate with ‘IT’ and make us all smarter. Interesting how you continually refer to ‘IT’ as though ‘IT’ were alive! I’m not sure the cell phone is making you smarter or providing you with faster access to resources and data which you use to seem smarter. And the loss of the phone is more to do with our attachment to the immediacy of information. I don’t however feel my thirst for knowledge nor ability to think, has changed that much from how I was 20 or even 30 years ago. All that’s changed is my capability to ‘access’ what I am interested in much faster than in the past. Unfortunately, what ‘we’ want and what ‘we’ will get from technology are 2 different things; the reasons for which are too long to go into here. Oh and gotta love the bit about “putting computers on our brain” (sic) in order to access gateways to the cloud!! Ha! And who’s going to stop a runaway hacker from generating a virus directly to your brain or millions of brains and getting us all to switch to ‘off’ mode? Am fascinated watching you both pluck future dates out of thin air and propose that’s what will be happening. “…one physical form that gets sick and dies”…We’ve already trashed a whole planet and it’s probably ok to say that If we lived forever, we might not survive unless of course ‘we’ are no longer ‘flesh and blood’.
by Mr.X
“I don’t however feel my thirst for knowledge nor ability to think, has changed that much from how I was 20 or even 30 years ago..”
Ignoring all these (mostly) uninformed claims of yours, I must say this statement indicates that you’re doing something wrong.
Btw: Talk about logic….”We’ve already trashed a whole planet and it’s probably ok to say that If we lived forever, we might not survive unless of course ‘we’ are no longer ‘flesh and blood’.”
Have a nice day, and excuse my seemingly rude manners.The temperature in my work room is 15°(59 in f!?) right now.^^
Btw someone wrote: “Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”
Ps: Yes I know who wrote this.