The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
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.
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 civili...
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 e...
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.
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 s...
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it—life begins in slime and ends in intelligence—whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthrop...
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 too...
As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods. —
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 m...
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own br...
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activi...