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If you're openly sorting search results with an AI, you're taking on certain responsibilities for which Google might not be ready...
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Kurzweil is starting to appreciate that he's been oversimplifying how the human brain works. But his latest iteration of a theory of mind still leaves much to be desired.
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To some, Ray Kurzweil will always be a tech prophet , and they're prepared to cherry-pick his track record to sell that belief.
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Time gives the Singularity and its prophet the kid glove treatment, glossing over the scientific and technical issues with a wave of starry eyed credulity.
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Ray Kurzweil is an atheist by the colloquial definition of the term. But when it comes to the spirit of the term, instead of the letter, I would hesitate to agree.
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When you start with a deeply flawed premise and advance a deeply flawed argument, you'll come to a deeply flawed conclusion.
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IEEE is not impressed with Ray Kurzweil's cold readings about the future of computing and technology.
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Are public transhumanists pulling away from Kurzweil, citing him as a distraction from a much more sober and realistic community?
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Ray Kurzweil seems to think that DNA is like software code which can be optimized and compressed. He's in for a rude awakening if he tries to treat it that way.
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The Prophet of the Singularity returns with a hopeful sermon on our impending computer-aided immortality.