Humans will attain immortality with the help of ‘nanobots’ by 2030, claims former Google scientist
Ray Kurzweil, a former Google engineer, has made a shocking prediction that humans will become immortals in just seven years. Although, 86 per cent of his 147 predictions have been correct.
Kurzweil was hired by Google in 2012 to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing, but he was making predictions in technological advances long before. In 1990, he predicted the world’s best chess player would lose to a computer by 2000, and it happened in 1997 when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov.
I have played chess with a computer and it seems to get tougher as the level goes up, regardless of the previous puzzle! I am not surprise if Gary Kasparov was defeated by computer chess by name Deep Blue.
Kurzweil made another startling prediction in 1999:
He said that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have a human brain’s computing power and storage capacity. Now the former Google engineer believes technology is set to become so powerful it will help humans live forever, in what is known as the singularity. It is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. He said that machines are already making us more intelligent and connecting them to our neocortex will help people think more smartly.
Contrary to the fears of some, he believes that implanting computers in our brains will improve us. We’re going to get more neocortex, we’re going to be funnier, we’re going to be better at music. We’re going to be sexier, he said. We’re really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree rather than a vision of the future where machines take over humanity, Kurzweil believes we will create a human-machine synthesis that will make us better. Follow on Twitter««
The concept of nanomachines being inserted into the human body has been in science fiction for decades.
