20 predictions for 2020: Here's what people said would happen by this year
- Life expectancy will rise past 100.
- Computers will be invisible.
- Books will be dead.
- Your every move will be tracked.
- World's population will reach 8 billion.
- China will be the world's largest economy.
- We'll have self-driving cars.
According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, called intelligence explosion, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an "explosion" in intelligence and
Artificial consciousness. Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness (Gamez 2008; Reggia 2013), is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics.
Here's what AI can do:
- What AI can do: Everyday human stuff. ?? Recognize objects in images.
- Travel. ?? Drive.
- Science & medicine. ?? Discover new uses for existing drugs.
- Agriculture. ?? Detect crop disease.
- Security. ?? Spot burglars in your home.
- Finance. ?? Trade stocks.
- Law.
- Games & tests.
We will create systems and robots, which are smarter than us. According to Ray Kurzweil, one of the most-known futurists, computers will have the same level of intelligence as humans by 2045. This point of evolution is called by some scientists as the Singularity.
| Ray Kurzweil |
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| Born | Raymond Kurzweil February 12, 1948 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.) |
| Occupation | Author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor |
| Employer | Google |
I believe It truly depends on the architecture and hardware implementation,AI can become self-aware in 1 day,If you have a good model of some neural network(I mean a wonderful architecture and algorithms of it),and You know it hardware implementation. Or it can take 100 years.
HUMANS will grow to an average of two metres, live to the age of 120 and all have brown skin by 3000, an evolutionary expert says. By the year 102,000, humans will have split into two sub-species — the "genetic haves" and the "genetic have-nots".
Stabilization in the population will happen in the second half of the century. It is calculated there will be 601,000 centenarians (people at least a hundred years old – born before 1950) in the United States by 2050. According to this study, 9.075 billion people will inhabit Earth in 2050, against 7 billion today.
He predicts paradigm shifts will become increasingly common, leading to "technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history". Kurzweil believes that the singularity will occur by approximately 2045.
Futurists say that our destiny will be shaped by the Singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. Scholars don't agree on the details, but they say it will happen between 30 and 1000 years from today, with most predicting it will emerge in the next century.
Kurzweil believes that the singularity will occur by approximately 2045. His predictions differ from Vinge's in that he predicts a gradual ascent to the singularity, rather than Vinge's rapidly self-improving superhuman intelligence.
The 2040s (pronounced "twenty-forties") is a decade of the Gregorian calendar that will begin on January 1, 2040, and will
end on December 31, 2049.
2040s.
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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| Years: | 2040 2041 2042 2043 2044 2045 2046 2047 2048 2049 |
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- How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed is a non-fiction book about brains, both human and artificial, by the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.
- Kurzweil describes a series of thought experiments which suggest to him that the brain contains a hierarchy of pattern recognizers.
Put simply, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) can be defined as the ability of a machine to perform any task that a human can. An agent having artificial general intelligence will not only learn with relatively less training data but will also apply the knowledge gained from one domain to another.
Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics
The genetics revolution will allow us to reprogram our own biology. The nanotechnology revolution will allow us to manipulate matter at the molecular and atomic scale. The robotics revolution will allow us to create a greater than human non-biological intelligence.Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist that became Google's Director of Engineering in late 2012, recently told the Guardian that his sole job at Google is to make the company's computers as smart as humans — smarter, actually — when it comes to natural language understanding.
What did Ray Kurzweil invent?
Image scanner
Optical character recognition
Kurzweil's 2005 book The Singularity Is Near was a New York Times bestseller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.
| Ray Kurzweil |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.) |
| Occupation | Author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor |
| Employer | Google |
| Spouse(s) | Sonya Rosenwald ( m. 1975) |
Kurzweil's food choices are fine, nutrient-dense and overall very healthy, said Madelyn Fernstrom, NBC News Health and Nutrition Editor. He seems to be focusing healthy carbs, such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables; lean protein, like fish; and healthy fats, also found in fish.
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. The Singularity is also the point at which machines intelligence and humans would merge.
