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Ray Kurzweil: How to Build a Mind

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Singularity Institute

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Partner:: Singularity Institute
Location:: Nob Hill Masonic Center
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 10.13.12
Speaker:: Ray Kurzweil
Tags:: artificial intelligence; topten2012

Summary: Entrepreneur and futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses his forthcoming book How to Create a Mind. Kurzweil explores how the Singularity will bring greater health, wealth and happiness for humankind.

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Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil has been described as "the restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal, and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him eighth among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison," and PBS included Ray as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America."

As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.

Ray has written six books, four of which have been national best sellers. Ray's latest book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.

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01 hr 07 min 38 sec

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01.: Introduction

01 min 11 sec

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02.: The Law of Accelerating Returns

07 min 17 sec

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03.: Emerging Trends

09 min 24 sec

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04.: Exponential Growth of Computing for 110 Years

07 min 08 sec

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05.: Mobile, Internet Data, Biological Growth

01 min 57 sec

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06.: Reverse Engineering the Brain

01 min 13 sec

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07.: Evolution of the Brain

05 min 41 sec

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08.: The Neocortex and Pattern Recognition

04 min 59 sec

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09.: Ways the Brain Differs from a Conventional Computer

03 min 12 sec

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10.: 300 Million Pattern Recognizers

03 min 04 sec

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11.: Long Term Scale of Improvement of Human Life

06 min 02 sec

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12.: Q & A

16 min 29 sec

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Ray Kurzweil: AI Could Make a Healthier, Wealthier World

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Author and futurist Ray Kurzweil examines the rise in health and wealth levels throughout the world since 1800, speculating that combining human intelligence with artificial intelligence will continue to perpetuate this trend.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

artificial intelligence (AI): Ability of a machine to perform tasks thought to require human intelligence. Typical applications include game playing, language translation, expert systems, and robotics. Although pseudo-intelligent machinery dates back to antiquity, the first glimmerings of true intelligence awaited the development of digital computers in the 1940s. AI, or at least the semblance of intelligence, has developed in parallel with computer processing power, which appears to be the main limiting factor. Early AI projects, such as playing chess and solving mathematical problems, are now seen as trivial compared to visual pattern recognition, complex decision making, and the use of natural language. See also Turing test.; artificial intelligence (AI) on britannica.com