Thank you very much Lex 🙏

Thank you for your channel & guide.

Thanks, Lex, for this wonderful weekend treat! ❤

is that a wig?

He looks like like a dude who owns a plane that Jeffrey Epstein flew on. And then he molested Jeffrey Epstein.

That's a good one there - the time frame showcasing its presence.

It's very satisfying 😌

The synchronicity of singularity 😊… as it comes, we should see TONS more of these.

Interesting touch. I wonder what it will feel like when it hits. Perhaps it will literally 'blow our minds', a phrase that seems to originate in the cultural milieu of those bringing this to fruition.

😝!

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Well said!!

Long time follower of Ray Kurzweil myself. I always imagined it (tech singularity) but listening to him talk in this interview with Lex brings it to life on a whole new level. Like listening gave me the strongest mixed feeling of fear, awe, & wonder, like we will be living this soon. So surreal.

I’m pretty sure Lex is not human and he is making it apparent by fucking with this dude Ray amongst many others.

Why doesn’t Lex “freed” “man” ever appear sitting next to any other human being? Is he perhaps the software we are expecting to consider hardware that possesses the capability to complete the Turing test? This interviewer has a subject that is clearly motivated by his fear of death. How would Lex react to a subject that has no fear of death or no subjective experience of time that relates to the collective who are excited by fear before they actually experience it. Upon hearing that they should be afraid they are. Without question. Lex, I am not any of those people. I am Not people. Death is nothing. Life is death. If this dude was able to become immortal which is what he is ultimately after, how would it play out if we took the view of a futurist? Conquers planets and their resources while murdering billions and trillions of lives here in what we know as earth. Total control of the earth and its ultimate power source, the sun, moves on to control the power of several suns. Several galaxies, several universes. They will never escape the inescapable fact that those who seek power are the least deserving of wielding it.

His predictions have been pretty spot on, right?

Here we are..

Yes, I studied his writing as well... I loved his take on things! I won an award for my writing but I just continued was he was writing about in my own take...

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He just got ate up in the comments on the Joe Rogan podcast.

It's going so fast now. I have my jaw dropped every few months. I didn't discount the man back then. I hoped against all hope, and still do. I want him to be right. I mean, i watch company reps testifying before congress on how AI needs to be regulated just the other day.

@@mikegamerguy4776 That congressional hearing was profound in the sense that you rarely see such companies asking for more oversight. We truly are living in an incredible period of history.

I read that book in 2005, been preaching it ever since. Laughed at by my circles, and now... 2023 the year in which AI became mainstream. Kurzweil was no joke. dude was so on top of things.

@wwlittlejOfficial i read his amazing book too in 2007, I believed him completely, but I knew humans were not even aware or prepared for this, so i decided to keep silent all these years. Still, in 2023, technology "coaches and gurus" think they will control the future AGI and ASI upcoming just like another tool 😙🫠 ohh honey they are so sweet and innocent🤭 but they are needed to calm down people because Singularity gonna be a really Intense event.

Too late

Same here bro!

We have it so good right now, let's not open Pandoras box. I'm not worried about T:2 style attack on humanity, I'm worried about an elite group of humans using AI to enslave a swaths of people in a Matrix of hedonism.

Once they start talking about the singularity it starts popping off.

Absolutely, it was along with John Carmack one of those dream shows I've wanted. I've followed Ray all my adult life. Almost every year when I was younger I'd check back in with him. His talks would be relatively the same really but I loved every new insight each talk he gave provided. He went dark in recent years which makes this talk really quite special. I can't wait to read his new book.

This soooo fire!!! I'm excited as well

he used to give a lot of talks to really small fry media people. I remember one podcast he was on and it only got a few hundred views. That was a long time ago though.

Thanks Lex!

He was also on StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

I just wish lex would ask him if AI can be racist. From the many videos I've watch of Lex , this was the first time I heard him speak on the concern of AI and the merging of AI tech with biology only being available to the rich. This essentially creating a bigger gap between classes. Poor Vs rich/ human Vs cyborg human. I would like to hear Lex address if machines could be racist and if there is a way to make machines in all their true superiority, Superior in radical empathy and racial acceptance.

@@Maxatrillion08 I don't know if you've been following along over the years with A.I but A.I not only can be racist but it has a history of being extremely racist. The problem is when you sample from society to make a large language model, its going to sample the racism too and include that in its replies. Recently this has been addressed but the solutions as of right now are weak and cause their own problems. Like if you ask a text to image A.I diffuser to make a picture of a civil war from some period it will include mixed races in that while it might be true that only whites were in that or vice versa. The A.I doesn't have the smarts to understand that diversity isn't always what you need but its being forced into A.I systems. I think they'll get better at this and as the language models understand what their actually saying more and more, they'll monitor themselves for this. Aside from that, the idea that only the rich will have this. This has been proven through history to be completely untrue. As they say in the podcast, the first of a new technology only the rich can afford but its usually pretty shitty at that point. As it improves and scales up, it works better until we can all afford it and it works great. All technology scales up eventually and its price drops as it scales. If you're very poor you might lose out as is the case today. But anyone with even a low income today has all the technology as a rich person has. phones/computers/a tablet maybe. big screen tv and so on. These are common and cheap. A.I assistants and upgrades to humans, these will be so very cheap everyone will have them.

No one can predict the future and whoever says something specific about the future is a liar

@urveabak2025 of course, you can not, but other people have the necessary tools to do it very, Very well.

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What an amazing story! Thank you very much for sharing it with us here! ❤

Huh. Small world, as they say.

​@Ela Lamblin Your a Bot 🤖🤖🤖

@dumballover123 You already have massive pipes into your brain, the spinal chord, the optic and auditory nerves, and olfactory system. these pump trillions of bits of data into and out of your brain, which filters this tidal wave of data for useful information about the world you live in, and we call this your senses. Connecting your brain directly to a source of pure information, to access all of human knowledge at light speed... To be able to connect to another human being, and share thoughts, feelings, life experiences as though they were your own... To record the lives of our best, brightest, most beloved, most decent, and have access to those lives, their experiences and formative thoughts, their epiphanies, and enlightenment. Would that not be the exaltation of being human? Would that not be heaven on earth. The punishment for a crime, would be to have the perpetrator experience his act as the victim. How long before crime vanished from the world, and world of infinite empathy? Human beings are going to evolve... are at this very moment evolving. a third of children born today have no wisdom teeth. That is evolution at work. We now have our hands on the wheel of evolution itself and can choose what being we become. We can transcend our worst aspects and bring to full fruit the angels of our better selves transcendent and blazing with the grace of our unbridled compassion and dignity. Every shift in human technology has changed us. Its time to choose how we will change. What we will choose to become. There have always been Luddites, afraid of change. I'm certain the was a hairy man bellowing that being human meant to live in the dirt, in the cave, by the fire, and the crazy idea of living out in the wild places in the unprotected open was against civilized human existence. They too were wrong. By all means, be cautious, demand people proceed with care and consideration. But stop and consider what it is to be human, what is most important. How do we grow and develop our kind to become everything we might become. And support that.

Agree. Lex looks noticeably more like a human and less like a robot now! (only kidding)

It really is noticeably improved and looks & sounds fantastic.

I agree! Awesome production Lex. 🤘🤘🤘

It's all animation

Yes the sound has improved a lot and the faces are clearer. Perhaps it's easier to simulate replicants than film old-style people?

amen

Thats not how life works for regular people, maybe for the ones with selective perception-

I hate Tyson. He's gotten so famous that he's come to believe his own bullshit. The dude is a quack

True about Neil

ADHD + Ego lol

neil should keep his mouth shut. he's a narccisist. he suffers from a Sagan inferiority complex

Eveeytime I see this type BS copy pasta comment about NdGT, I genuinely appreciate the fact I know I can just hate someone without any shred of doubt.

@@amoeba8888 disagree with you on this one, there is lots of new info here

I’ve had that ‘let’s talk’ thing. I didn’t take it up - why are they trying to hook up via WhatsApp does anyone know?

@@nonfictionone those are bots or scam centers (probably Indian or Russian) trying to get you into an encrypted chat where they can try to take your money. Ignore those.

@@Larry321ness Thanks very much

There's nothing intelligent about Ray Kurzweil, he is just the average trans-humanist materialist moron, with some academic papers

Unfortunately for this talk we only get another 30 minutes of the good stuff, and then it's over.

May be a noble attempt but not a noble act. I feel bad for his lack of faith

This guy is far from noble. Dig deeper, there’s a nefarious agenda this guy is pushing.

@@MikeJones-wo7vm care to go into some detail there?

@@trippytradingcards7852 lmao

@@trippytradingcards7852 I for one will celebrate victory over death from age and assumedly most if not all diseases.

which are the other two?

What are the other two?

Where are the other two?

The other 2?

I think Joscha Bach has been his most fascinating guest ;)

The singularity. lol..... are we all falling for that .... The Great Hope. I would bet on the bow and arrow for survival over that AI bollox. Nice one mate !

It just means there will be one place for all your misinformation ! Yippy. Take care bro.

Yep, I have to say. Another 30 minutes or longer would have been easy to watch.

"34:12" lol

@@evanmargol3408 yes I agree I could have listened to much more of this conversation. Lex, give us a day with Ray!

You missed out. Ray is a beautiful soul. He says a lot by not saying too much

Even Ray Kurzweil predictions looks slow now, and that guy is a Genius.

I read articles in about 2000, in which one Liam Lacey speculated on modern man’s dilemma or ability to adjust to life in the year 1000 if suddenly transported there. His conclusion was that it would not be terribly difficult. But then another writer, Spider ( Spyder?) something - forgot his last name - speculated in kind on modern man if planted suddenly in the year 3000. His conclusion was it would be impossible. No surprise there. And the kicker was that a main change would not be gradual, but rather occur within 50 years. So 2000 plus 50 - by 2050. In other words, about the same as predicted by Ray Kurzweil. I wish I could get a hold of that writing. If anyone, by chance knows, please comment, thanks.

@@azhuransmx126 Guys I'm from the future. Exactly 8 months away from your comments. And astonishingly AI is growing in reverse, future LLMs will need to do more things to compete with GPT4 and 3.5. Read the open ai blog post. Here we are with Kurzweils predictions being on course AGAIN. But OP still seems right, if AGI happens in 2029, there's no way singularity will happen way later in 2045. More like a month or a year away from that.

@invaderg3332 2029 AGI = reaches consciousness and begins the Human Massive Replacement in All Fields. 2045 ASI = The Singularity. Humans lose all control about WTF is going on. If not augmented, we will not understand anything, just like chimps can not understand our civilization.

It's that guy from the Juice Rap News - Singularity track featuring Alex Jones!

I bet klaus schwab is saying the same..

Kurzweil is an extraordinary person and I sincerely hope that he can live long enough to the point where science can extend it indefinitely. I hope it's nothing, but I had to speed up the video 1.25X to hear him speak at the same pace as before.

I've good suspicions on this, but what do I know, I'm clinically mad.

This reminds me of that time when half the population blamed Bill Gates for warning that Covid might be coming 😂 I guess he'll become the villain eventually too

A class five civilization would be able to send information back in time

Maybe create a channel and find others to interview and discuss these ideas. And interact with the commenters. When these channels go pro, they stop engaging.

It only seems bleak because people like to look for the negative things in the world. Negative media attracts more people than positive one due to how brain works in most people and therefore people have to deliberately search for good news to find it. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is.

With the media becoming nothing more than an extension of government, and only when one party happens to be in power, is worrisome to me. Imagine having no choice to switch said propaganda off, and having that propaganda with a feedback loop that provides info back to the originator as to whether or not you 'fully' understood the meaning. This does not end well folks.

Optimism in transhumanism is that something that we should feel also?

@@neillatore6975 it is a proven fact that you can get college students to sign anything, including a petition to sterilize themselves to "save the planet"

@@neillatore6975 Better than the alternative

He is a charlatan that has made a reputation for predicting the future (just like you and me can do). He is no expert or guru.

@@jimj2683 Lol, was about to reply the same thing but using milder language. I remember watching another interview with him back when he worked at google and wonder how he got the job.

@@jimj2683 Charlatan from MIT with other valid credentials to back it up? Nah.

@@WaitButHow He's a MIT graduate and holds several inventions in text-to-speech and speech recognition. He's the inventor of the Kurzweil keyboards, received medals for his contribution in technology from the white house and was personally recruited by the Google founder Larry Page. Imagine being as insignificant as you and calling someone like Kurzweil a charlatan, someone who actually made real innovative contributions and made the life better for the blind community.

@@jimj2683 I really doubt you can make any solid prediction about the future considering your lack of critical thinking ability. Don't flatter yourself when you're below average in intelligence. Come back when you have received a medal of highest honor in technology and innovation from a US president and gets headhunted by the founder of Google. But of course, you're a diamond in the rough who is actually really smart and can see what not even Lex, Clinton and Larry Page can see. Good for you!

ChatGPT (or at least public filtered version of it) is nothing but way less reliable, more articulate Google search engine. When Altman said it's good in doing impression of being something great, it was not fake modesty.

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There is so much with tech that is being suppressed at the moment. I am still clueless on many aspects of it. Would be interested in hearing more about a lot of the tech that is waiting on the wings.

Hi Susie. Why are you stuck in the material artificial word? I alway's thought that the feminin mind could reach much further than that. 😃

Yeah, the book was a good read. However, today I think that it could take another century or more, until "yes virgin, no will, no qualia" AI can convincingly deceive experts that it has first-hand experience of living as a man or woman, instead of rendering a digest of recorded human experience found on the internet - i.e. pass the Turing test. Of course, that's not a requirement for the majority of work in the field.

The education system today, does not make you smart or better prepared for today and the future. So keep on progressing and learning any way that works for you.

No negative things to say, and no criticism. This guy is a sell out.

Hi Roman, I think this is very limited talking. I live in europe and I am a scientist in the medical field. We are very limited in thinking and consiousness. Russian people and scientists are open in more levels of conciousness , especially in the non fysical world. I have very much respect for this kind of russian thinking. This type of talking is very stupid, you should know this. 😄

He’s playing the part now of mister lover of humanity when his life’s work is aimed at a post human world where humans are simply droids and and techno shamans serve the desires of elites . Same story as it’s always been . Ray seems to equate intelligence with the ability to access information but to me it’s the ability to integrate and understand that information. How much smarter are we than the Egyptians the Greeks etc… if a smart phone is out great claim to fame .

I know, right? stoopid humans

Great, great comment.

Guests with wisdom over fame any day.

@@3rdEyeGnostic Kurzweil has both.

@@JohnDoe-nj6ef Spoken like a true nerd. You're not famous unless my grandmother knows who you are.

Art Bell..check him out. RIP.

I think his predictions are very optimistic because he's old and he wish to still be alive when technology will beat death..I hope he's right but who knows.

@@ori1676 He won't live to see his predictions come true, yet they will come true.

What guitars?

@@jasonblack6142 Keyboards

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@Rachel B. Well AlphaGo doesn't use a premade database of moves to beat players, it instead plays against itself trillions of matches until it finds the best way to beat itself and then it beat humans. Evolutionary algorithms was used by moderna to make vaccines and they are being used to make art and to make machines and solve problems.

What does Ray Kurzweil about the zero-sum game in this multipolar world? Will it affect technology growth? Do you think China and ASEAN will get together to fund research when they are threatened by Western military?

@Rachel B. why do you doubt that? Humans had no source of information 5000 years ago. Now look how much information we've built on top of that. When computers surpass the reasoning ability of humans, they're gonna discover anything that can be discovered at a rapid pace. Human brain isn't that special when it comes to reasoning and learning imo. But when it comes to emotions and consciousness... yeah it's fascinating

Engines of creation was also an amazing read

@@aoeu256 it's an accelerator if anything. I doubt it. I don't think any publicly funded research announcements matter at all. Everything you read about military/energy/AI in particular (world changing tech) is irrelevant. We already have the next 20-30 years of tech on a slow drip to society when needed. The law of acceralating returns continues.