Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. -Ray Kurzweil Future
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter. -Ray Kurzweil Nature
If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning. -Ray Kurzweil Computers
I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago. -Ray Kurzweil Wisdom
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous. -Ray Kurzweil Movies
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. -Ray Kurzweil Intelligence
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence. -Ray Kurzweil Intelligence
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. -Ray Kurzweil Computers
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold. -Ray Kurzweil Intelligence
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. -Ray Kurzweil Computers
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous. -Ray Kurzweil Movies
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter. -Ray Kurzweil Intelligence
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate. -Ray Kurzweil Intelligence
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. -Ray Kurzweil Intelligence
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach. -Ray Kurzweil Science
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. -Ray Kurzweil Technology
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings. -Ray Kurzweil Technology
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. -Ray Kurzweil Intelligence
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. -Ray Kurzweil Computers
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. -Ray Kurzweil Death
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter. -Ray Kurzweil Change
