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📣 cryptoz

How is Ray Kurzweil doing?


I feel like he would have a lot to say about these past few weeks. Anyone know how he surfaces these days? I checked out his site, found an empty twitter profile, etc. Just curious what he'd say about all this - thought I suppose it's probably predictable because he's been saying the same things for a while and now they're here.

I guess I just wonder if he is feeling any vindication about the pace of progress in the face of so much naysaying over the decades.

  👤 csh0 Accepted Answer ✓
Wikipedia suggests he was hired by Google in 2012 to work on NLP.[0]

I also found an interview with him and Lex Friedman, though it is from Sept 2022[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

[1]https://lexfridman.com/ray-kurzweil/

👤 cryptoz
Ah, I found something, he spoke just a few days ago at #Abundance360, see for example (scroll a bit) https://twitter.com/search?q=ray%20Kurzweil

Not sure of the content yet, will have to look at it later. But happy he's around and talking about it all!

👤 wageslave99
I read "The Age of the Spiritual Machines" and thought that he had a good points, and I liked the ideas he showed in the book. However, I thought that he was a bit optimistic about the timeline and capabilities of these "spiritual machines".

Now? I'm sure he was not wrong at all.

👤 menshiki
He published a book in Sep 2022. The interview with Fridman was also around that time. I doubt his views changed much since the publication of those two.
👤 seydor
naysaying comes and goes, in waves. I'm sure that the past 3 months have been a great decade for him
👤 thanatos519
That's an interesting question. I would have expected him to have something to say about all of this.