Frasi di Raymond Kurzweil

Raymond Kurzweil è un inventore, informatico e saggista statunitense.

È un pioniere nei campi del riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri, nel text-to-speech, nelle tecnologie sul riconoscimento del parlato e degli strumenti musicali a tastiera elettronici. È autore di numerosi libri sulla salute, l'intelligenza artificiale, il transumanesimo e la singolarità tecnologica.

Sua l'idea di dare alle tastiere la possibilità di simulare realisticamente il pianoforte aggiungendo alla simulazione del suono della corda i rumori prodotti dal corpo del piano. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Febbraio 1948
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Raymond Kurzweil: Frasi in inglese

“Once a computer achieves human intelligence it will necessarily roar past it.”

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

“The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.”

Origine: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

“Creating an avatar of this sort is one way of embodying that information in a way that human beings can interact with. It is inherently human to transcend limitations.”

Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id=14267712 (August 9, 2011)
Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id14267712 (2011)

“The Terminator' is not an impossibility. I think that symbolizes the downside of artificial intelligence … but technology has a big downside in general. There is a bigger downside to not pursuing it.”

Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id=14267712 (2011)

“Neither noise nor information is predictable.”

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

“I think all human beings are and should be fearful [of death, but realizing that death is a real tragedy.”

Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id14267712 (2011)

“Order… is information that fits a purpose.”

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

“You can certainly argue that, philosophically, that is not your father. That is a replica, but I can actually make a strong case that it would be more like my father than my father would be, were he to live.”

Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id14267712 (2011)

“I will be able to talk to this re-creation. Ultimately, it will be so realistic it will be like talking to my father.”

Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id14267712 (2011)

“The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating.”

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

“The twentieth century was like twenty years' worth of change at today's rate of change.”

"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are.”

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

“this will become the size of blood cells and we will be able to put intelligence inside of our bodies and brains to keep ourselves healthier.”

Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id14267712 (2011)

“A primary reason that evolution—of life-forms or technology—speeds up is that it builds on its own increasing order.”

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

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