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Journal articles on the topic "Ray Kurzweil"

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Clarke, Roger. "Questioning Ray Kurzweil [Letters to the Editor]." IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 32, no. 4 (2013): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mts.2013.2292807.

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Izotov, Maxim O. "R. Kurzweil’s Worldview: A Critical Analysis of the Technocratic Projectto Achieve Immortality." Siberian Journal of Philosophy 18, no. 3 (February 25, 2021): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2541-7517-2020-18-3-49-60.

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The article is devoted to understanding the prospects of possible application of advanced technological developments in order to improve the biological nature of man. It analyses the ideas of Ray Kurzweil, who is a supporter of such transformations of human nature. It is shown that Kurzweil’s conclusions are of a worldview nature: in the near future, through the cyborgization of people, it will be possible to achieve a state close to immortality and, thus, solve the world-view issues of self-knowledge and create the conditions for unlimited self-development. It is concluded that such optimistic forecasts are insufficiently justified due to the limited possibility of modern technologies to “improve” a person’s life and help with the most difficult technical and ethical problems.
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González Quirós, José Luis, and David Díaz Pardo de Vera. "Theory of mind: from artificial intelligence to hybrid intelligence." TECHNO REVIEW. International Technology, Science and Society Review 9, no. 2 (January 18, 2021): 103–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.37467/gka-revtechno.v9.2816.

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Philosophy of mind has long ceased to be, if indeed it ever was, the exclusive domain of philosophers. In contemporary thought there is increasing interest in these matters from the point of view of technology. This paper gives a critique of the ideas of Ray Kurzweil and briefly reviews some of the recent trends in the treatment of these questions.
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Monserrat, Javier. "El transhumanismo de Ray Kurzweil. ¿Es la ontología biológica reductible a computación?" Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 71, no. 269 (February 15, 2016): 1417–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.14422/pen.v71.i269.y2015.022.

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Los programas de computación, ante todo la ingeniería de la visión artificial y la programación de los sensores somáticos, ya han permitido, y lo harán con mayor perfección en el futuro, construir con alta perfección androides o cyborgs que colaborarán con el hombre y abrirán sin duda nuevas reflexiones morales sobre como respetar en su dignidad ontológica las nuevas máquinas humanoides. Además, tanto los hombres actuales como los nuevos androides estarán en conexión con inmensas redes de computación externa que harán crecer de forma casi increíble la eficacia en el dominio del propio cuerpo y de la naturaleza. Sin embargo, nuestro conocimiento científico actual, por una parte, del hardware y del software que sostendrá tanto las máquinas humanoides como las redes de computación externa hechas con la ingeniería existente (y también la previsible a medio e incluso largo plazo) y, por otra, nuestro conocimiento científico sobre el comportamiento animal y humano desde las estructuras biológico-neuronales que producen un sistema psíquico, nos permiten establecer que no existe fundamento científico que permita hablar de una identidad ontológica entre las máquinas computacionales y el hombre. En consecuencia, diversas ontologías producirán sistemas funcionales diversos. Podrá haber simulación, pero nunca identidad ontológica. Estas ideas son esenciales para valorar el pensamiento transhumanista de Ray Kurzweil.
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Hovagimyan, G. H. "Art in the Age of Spiritual Machines: (with apologies to Ray Kurzweil)." Leonardo 34, no. 5 (October 2001): 453–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002409401753521593.

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Humanity is evolving towards a “post-human” society that may include enhanced human beings, hybrid humans, and artificial intelligences. As an artist working in digital media and network culture, I believe that the crucial issue of the time is to clear the path for networked art and to create the foundations for a new aesthetic discourse emerging from networked culture. In order to do this, one has to be willing to create art that may not be readily recognized as artwork. In this essay, I trace the common roots of structuralist philosophy, developmental psychology, reductivist art discourse, structural linguistics and neural nets in an attempt to create a basis for this new aesthetic discourse.
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Kade, Richard. "Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil. Viking Press, New York, U.S.A., 1999." Leonardo 33, no. 3 (June 2000): 234–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon.2000.33.3.234b.

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Forbus, Kenneth D., Benjamin Kuipers, and Henry Lieberman. "Remembering Marvin Minsky." AI Magazine 37, no. 3 (October 7, 2016): 94–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v37i3.2677.

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Marvin Minsky, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and a renowned mathematicial and computer scientist, died on Sunday, 24 January 2016 of a cerebral hemmorhage. He was 88. In this article, AI scientists Kenneth D. Forbus (Northwestern University), Benjamin Kuipers (University of Michigan), and Henry Lieberman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) recall their interactions with Minksy and briefly recount the impact he had on their lives and their research. A remembrance of Marvin Minsky was held at the AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford University on March 22. Video remembrances of Minsky by Danny Bobrow, Benjamin Kuipers, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Waldinger, and others can be on the sentient webpage1 or on youtube.com.
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Marszalski, Mariusz. "Speculations on the Future of Economic Models in the Wake of Trans/Posthuman Sentient Evolution in Charles Stross’s SF Novel “Accelerando”." Anglica Wratislaviensia 59 (December 28, 2021): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.59.1.

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Economy, understood as a domain of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services, has been unquestionably comprehended as a social activity, the purpose of which is to satisfy first of all vital material, but also immaterial, needs of the biological natural human being. Whatever the underlying ideology—whether protectionist mercantilism, the physiocrats’ laissez-faire policy, Adam Smith’s free-market capitalism, Karl Marx’s socialist economics, Keynesian state interventionism, or present day neoliberalism—economic considerations have been invariably driven by the fundamental problem of scarcity. The objective of the proposed paper is to present Charles Stross’s speculative predictions, made in his SF novel Accelerando, about the future of economic models in light of trans/posthuman evolution hailed by, among others, Ray Kurzweil, Max More, and Hans Moravec.
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Topf, Daniel. "“Useless Class” or Uniquely Human?" Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 32, no. 1 (2020): 17–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis2020321/22.

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This essay explores recent developments surrounding the Fourth Industrial Revolution, particularly as they relate to the challenge of technological unemployment. In an age of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence (Al), so warns the philosopher-historian Yuval Noah Harari, ordinary people may become unemployable, unable to contribute to society, and therefore be declared a “useless class.” In contrast to such a dystopian view, futurists like Ray Kurzweil and Nick Bostrom envision a digital utopia, while more realistic optimists emphasize that Al will ultimately create more jobs than it destroys. As an alternative to these perspectives, this essay proposes a Judeo- Christian approach that, independently of traditional frameworks of paid work, affirms the unique value and dignity of all human beings by highlighting the theological significance of human creativity, the balance between work and play, love as an overarching framework for life, and the role of human beings as ethical decision-makers.
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Aberšek, Boris. "THE TRANSFORMATION OF "ARTIFICIAL" SCIENCE INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: 50 YEARS LATER." Journal of Baltic Science Education 19, no. 3 (June 10, 2020): 340–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/jbse/20.19.340.

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For years, experts have warned against the unanticipated effects of general artificial intelligence (AI) on society. Ray Kurzweil (1998, 2005) predicts that by 2029 intelligent machines will be able to outsmart human beings. Stephen Hawking argues that “once humans develop full AI; it will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate”. Elon Musk warns that AI may constitute a “fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization”. If the problems of incorporating AI in manufacture and service operations, i.e. using smart machines, are smaller, as the ‘faults’ can be recognized relatively quickly and they do not have a drastic effect on society, then the incorporation of AI in society and especially in the educational process is an extremely risky business that requires a thorough consideration. The consequences of mistakes in this endeavour could be catastrophic and long-term, as the results can be seen only after many years.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ray Kurzweil"

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Areskog, Oskar. "Mapping the Singularity : A Diagrammatic Analysis of Kurzweil’s Singularity Argument and Some Objections." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446660.

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Constructing and understanding arguments is often difficult but key to both philosophyand other parts of the everyday life. Some methods to ease this task has been developed.One of the methods developed within informal reasoning is argument diagramming, amethod to structure and visualize arguments. This essay takes a complicated argumentabout the fate of the universe, put forward by futurist Ray Kurzweil in his book TheSingularity is Near, as well as some critique published against said argument, as a casestudy for the application of argument diagramming on unstructured arguments fromoutside the field of philosophy. To arrive at a diagram that can be easily grasped andread but still contains all information of the original argument, this essay developsa method of splitting sub-diagrams off of a main diagram. Analysing the resultingdiagrams shows that the plausibility of Kurzweil’s argument is heavily dependent on afew, critical premises at the lower levels of the diagram.
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McLaughlin, Hannah Christina. "Pauline Oliveros and the Quest for Musical Utopia." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6828.

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This thesis discusses music's role in utopian community-building by using a case study of a specific composer, Pauline Oliveros, who believed her work could provide a positive "pathway to the future" resembling other utopian visions. The questions of utopian intent, potential, and method are explored through an analysis of Oliveros's untraditional scores, as well as an exploration of Oliveros's writings and secondary accounts from members of the Deep Listening community. This document explores Oliveros's utopian beliefs and practices and outlines important aspects of her utopian vision as they relate to three major utopian models: the traditional "end-state" model, the anarchical model, and the postmodern "method" utopian model. Oliveros exhibits all three models within her work, although this thesis argues that she is, for the most part, a method utopian. While her ceremonial group improvisations like Link/Bonn Feier resemble anarchical works by John Cage, they exhibit a greater interest in the past and in process than most anarchical models allow. Likewise, while her visions of a future aided by AI and bio-technologies appear end-state, her improvisational works with her Electronic Instrument System (EIS) suggest a more process-based, method utopian approach. Her Deep Listening practice is deeply method-utopian, and her Center for Deep Listening can be viewed as an attempt at bringing these method utopian principles to the real world.
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Schumacher, Eric J. "A dramatistic approach to the singularity movement." 2012. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1670313.

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The Singularity is a hypothetical moment in the not-so-distant future when machine intelligence will supplant human intelligence as the dominant force in the world. There is a growing movement of scientists, authors, and advocates who believe the Singularity is not just possible, but inevitable. There is maybe no more eloquent or influential argument for the Singularity than futurist Ray Kurzweil’s 2005 book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Kurzweil predicts a utopian future of advanced human/machine hybrid intelligence and radically extended life by the year 2045. This thesis applies Kenneth Burke’s system of dramatism, specifically the pentad, to The Singularity is Near as well as a sample of technology articles from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to examine Kurzweil’s motives and the way Singularity discourse “chains out” through other media. I will also draw on movement theory to examine the discourse of Singularity advocates to determine if Singularity discourse qualifies as a rhetorical movement.
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Books on the topic "Ray Kurzweil"

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Chandra, Saurabh, ed. SOCRATES (Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Issue- June). 3rd ed. India: SOCRATES : SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL, 2015.

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(Editor), Jay Richards, ed. Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. Discovery Institute, 2001.

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Brown, David J. Mavericks of Medicine: Exploring the Future of Medicine with Andrew Weil, Jack Kevorkian, Bernie Siegel, Ray Kurzweil, and Others. Smart Publications, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ray Kurzweil"

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Robin, Thierry. "Ray Kurzweil et Michel Houellebecq." In PostHumains, 235–52. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.pur.52526.

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Hofstadter, Douglas R. "Moore's Law, Artificial Evolution, and the Fate of Humanity." In Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195162929.003.0014.

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More or less simultaneously in the closing year of the twentieth century, there appeared a curious coterie of books whose central, sensational-sounding claim was that humanity was on the verge of producing its own successors, thereby rendering itself both obsolete and superfluous. Chief among these books were The Age of Spiritual Machines by computer engineer and industrialist Ray Kurzweil, Robot by Carnegie-Mellon computer science professor Hans Moravec, and The Spike by technology writer Damien Broderick. There were several others that at least treated this theme seriously, such as Out of Control by Kevin Kelly, an editor at Wired magazine. The science-fiction tone of these books is clearly revealed by their subtitles: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (Kurzweil), Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind (Moravec), Accelerating into the Unimaginable Future (Broderick), and The Rise of Neobiological Civilization (Kelly). There would have been little reason for a serious reader to pay any attention to these books and their wild-sounding claims, had their authors not had the most respectable of credentials and had the books not been reviewed in the most serious of venues, often favorably. Thus, Kurzweil's and Moravec's books were reviewed together in the New York Times Sunday Book Review in January 1999, and although the reviewer, Rutgers University philosophy professor Colin McGinn, had some skeptical words to say about their views of consciousness, he essentially accepted all of their technical claims, which are extraordinary, at face value. Scientific American gave Moravec's book its glowing "Editors' Choice." On almost the same spring day of 2000 as Ray Kurzweil was receiving from the hands of President Clinton the National Medal of Technology for his pioneering efforts to help the handicapped through the use of computers, an apocalyptic reaction to the Kurzweil and Moravec books, written by the well-known computer scientist Bill Joy (a co-founder of Sun Microsystems), appeared as a cover article in Wired under the title "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us."
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Keats, Jonathon. "Singularity." In Virtual Words. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195398540.003.0033.

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In the future humans will live forever. Bodies will be optional. Brains will be networked, and the whole universe will be sentient. All of this is an inevitable consequence of the singularity, the moment at which computers surpass human intelligence. And the singularity will inevitably occur by the year 2045. These are the predictions of Ray Kurzweil, one of the most successful and respected technologists alive, the father of speech- and optical-character-recognition software, fundamental advances in artificial intelligence that have tapped computers into the two primary modes of human communication: oral and written. Both breakthroughs, conduits of machine learning, were achieved by imbuing computers with basic pattern recognition, such that voices with different accents and alphabets in different typefaces could be deciphered. Key to our knowledge and understanding, pattern recognition is something that humans are very good at, and Ray Kurzweil is better than most people at recognizing patterns. Perceiving subtle connections between varied technologies, he has foreseen the victory of a computer over the world’s leading chess player as well as the proliferation of seminal technologies, including the world wide web. These are reasons that prominent figures from Bill Gates to Marvin Minsky take Kurzweil seriously. Kurzweil’s prediction of the singularity follows his pattern of pattern recognition, enlarged to the scale of all history. He claims that he first recognized it while plotting human advances from the wheel to the web, discovering a curve of technological advancement that was not linear but exponential. He dubbed this the Law of Accelerating Returns and hired a team of researchers to trace it back to the Big Bang. Then he began ploddingly to move forward in time, until he reached “a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability,” circa 2045. At that point, he writes in The Singularity Is Near, his best-selling 2005 book on the subject, “the entire universe will become saturated with our intelligence. This is the destiny of the universe.” Kurzweil was not the first to make this observation.
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Cordeiro, Jose Luis. "Technological Convergence." In Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology, 23–41. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6772-2.ch002.

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Technological convergence is accelerating and allowing humanity to move from slow and erratic biological evolution to fast and precise technological evolution. The expression “emerging technologies” is used to cover new and potentially powerful fields such as biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology. Although the expression might be somewhat ambiguous, several clusters of different technologies are advancing exponentially and will be critical to humanity's future. NBIC is a common abbreviation that stands for nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science. Other technologies like robotics, quantum computing, and space technologies can be added towards an accelerating “technological convergence” that might lead to a “technological singularity” as proposed by US engineer and futurist Ray Kurzweil. According to Kurzweil, we will reach a “technological singularity” by 2045, when we will be able to transcend many of our current limitations and move from biological humans to technological transhumans, both on planet Earth and beyond.
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Agar, Nicholas. "The Technologist—Ray Kurzweil and the Law of Accelerating Returns." In Humanity's End, 35–56. The MIT Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262014625.003.0003.

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Cave, Stephen. "AI: Artificial Immortality and Narratives of Mind Uploading." In AI Narratives, 309–32. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846666.003.0014.

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AI promises to be a master technology that can solve any problem—including the problem of death. There are two main contemporary narratives describing how AI might achieve this: cyborgization and mind uploading. This chapter focuses on the latter. It examines how works of nonfiction by influential technologists, in particular Hans Moravec and Ray Kurzweil, have framed this possibility. It pays particular attention to three narrative elements: the promise of boundless wish fulfilment, the assumption of exponential technological progress, and the assumption of personal survival through the mind-uploading process. It then examines how works of fiction, including those of William Gibson, Greg Egan, Pat Cadigan, Robert Sawyer, Rudy Rucker, and Cory Doctorow, offer problematized accounts of these claims. It focuses on three problems in particular, which I call the problems of identity, stability, and substrate. It concludes that science fiction offers a particularly important site of critique and response to techno-utopian narratives.
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Diamond, Arthur M. "The Benefits: New Goods." In Openness to Creative Destruction, 49–62. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190263669.003.0004.

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The value of innovative new goods is hard to measure, but can be seen in how people vote with their feet to live where there are innovative new goods. Among the most important new goods are cures for diseases, electric light, cars, washing machines, air conditioning, television, and computers. Cures for disease are especially important because they are primary goods that are needed for pursuing almost any life plan. The grandson of John D. Rockefeller, the richest person ever to live, died of scarlet fever because medical invention and entrepreneurship had not yet created Prontosil. Washing machines reduce time spent in routine drudgery. Air conditioning aids health, and allows the mental sharpness needed for pursuing creative and challenging life plans. Cars increase safety and control of travel times and companions. Some goods, such as Ray Kurzweil’s optical character recognition (OCR) machine, enables the blind to read regular books.
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"The Magus of Silicon Valley. Immortality, Apocalypse, and God Making in Ray Kurzweil’s Transhumanism." In Mediality on Trial, 397–412. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110416411-015.

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