The Las Vegas Guardian Express — August 19, 2013 | Iam Bloom

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There are other scientists, like Ray Kurzweil, founder of Singularity University, who believe human immortality will come not from our biology, but from our technology.

Singularity University, in partnership with groups like Google, are trying to push and accelerate the boundaries of artificial intelligence. The group believes that eventually machines will not only gain intelligence, but rocket far beyond what humans are capable of being. They seem to think that through the use of artificially intelligent machines we will evolve into a state of immortality, becoming an entirely new kind of species. […]