Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking

Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking

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Two hundred million years ago, our mammal ancestors developed a new brain feature: the neocortex. This stamp-sized piece of tissue (wrapped around a brain the size of a walnut) is the key to what humanity has become. Now, futurist Ray Kurzweil suggests, we should get ready for the next big leap in brain power, as we tap into the computing power in the cloud.

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  1. They will be able to ‘autocorrect’ your brain, when you have a thought that questions your enslavement etc. You won’t even know which thoughts are yours and which thoughts are someone else’s. You have got to be ‘out of your mind’ to entertain this.

  2. This sinister man is inventing stories at the scene and he's juggling with amounts of years. And many swallow it like candy because our neocortexes have weakened by poison in the air, in our food and by bad radiation etc., etc., etc., because of an evil agenda……. Inside he laughs at those who admire and believe him …..

  3. Wow all you fearful imbeciles astound me. Ray Kurzweil is one of the most underapreciated people of our time. This is the path humanity is gonna take and no one will be forced to. Yes not everyone will get to become transhuman, this is true. However, judging from the moronic responses in the comments alot of people will also willingly stick to their religion and dogmas. You don't have to give this tech to everyone or force it on everyone you just have to give it to those who want it. Those who haven't embraced the beauty and power of things like hybrid thinking will just become the financial undesirables of the future.

  4. Imbéciles jugando a ser Dios, soñando como idiotas en ser eternos en este mundo ya de imbéciles. Pero vino a resultar que esta charla tenía un objetivo más macabro en el plan de los inconfundibles idólatras del ego. Porque cuando conecten sus mentes a la prometedora "red" para alcanzar su ansiado sueño de ser todopoderosos, no habrán hecho más que atarse como torpes ratas de labortario a los grilletes de la voluntad de un puñado de sádicos que bien creen que podrán jugar con los pensamientos de todos los "conectados". Dejarse implantar nanorobots en el cerebro, conquistados por la falsa promesa de obtener "superpoderes", a cambio de dejar en manos de los monstruos sus propios pensamientos y voluntad es ser verdadera y absolutamente idiotas.
    Los alineados con enfermos como este tal Kurzweil todavía no han entendido que ya somos eternos puesto que tenemos un alma.
    Los esclavos están demasiado tentados con la idea de estos asquerosos. Pues bien, feliz viaje a la esclavitud cuando implanten en sus mentes de idiotas sus torpes "tecnologías". Tiempos malditos en que se cree que para ser libres el camino es esclavizarse a la voluntad de un puñado de mierdas.

  5. 0:27. Not even 30 seconds in and this dud says in the beginning, there was this rodent like creature as small as a stamp and as thin as a stamp , had a just as thin covering for its walnut sized brain. How can the rodent creature thin as long as a stamp have a walnut sized brain when a walnut is bigger than a stamp?????

    I already find him un credible

  6. He is right .. google is now based on MUM called nultimodal unified model. A muiltimoal neural network which is 1000 times more powerful than bert (Bi-Directional Encoded representation from transformer)

  7. Why do we have to drag entire countries into your Frankenstein
    experiment. Why not go off and do your experiment with willing
    volunteers and if you are a success great and if not we can continue to
    live our lives.

  8. I find it terrifying that there is so much support in this comment section for the creation of a sub-human AI hybrid. We may gain computing capability, but we will lose our humanity. I say "we" but really mean those of us who are foolish enough to allow technocrats to tap them into the Borg.

  9. The most fundamental key to man's evolution is expression of choice. To choose to eat or not to eat; to fight or not to fight, and then to experience the consequences. If you place this responsibility onto a machine, man's mind will disintegrate. We also have this neat thing called 'teaching', that neo-cortex beings are pretty good at. Not perfect, but it's only been 100 years since we've created indestructible knowledge preservers. Help the human. Don't overwrite him.

  10. sounds like the end of thinking. you will no longer have to remember, or calculated. our brains will shrink over time and we will all assimilate back into one big blob of goo. and people want to sign up for this?