Will Humans Merge with AI? A Critical Look at the Singularity

Ray Kurzweil just launched his new book, Singularity is Nearer, on June 25, 2024. I’ve had it on pre-order for months, and this video covers the question “will humans merge with AI?” from the perspective of Ray’s new book. This is just the beginning of my thoughts on this topic – expect more videos.

Ray Kurzweil’s first book, The Singularity is Near, came out in 2005.

Ray is often considered a “nutjob” when it comes to his thoughts on AI 😅 … and there is reason for that. Besides the crazy predictions, we can’t ignore his intelligence. He’s got a 35-year track record of accurate predictions. He believes AGI will occur by 2029, and the Singularity by 2030. Ray has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years, longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Currently, he serves as a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.

In this video, I’m breaking down some of concepts in Ray Kurzweil’s book and taking a look at the future of how AI could merge with and transform humanity.