Super humans who are sexier, stronger and smarter will arrive by 2029 as brains begin to fuse with machines, Google expert claims
- Ray Kurzweil has made 147 predictions since 1990 and is correct 86% of the time
- By 2029 our brains fuse with machines - an event known as singularity
- He says machines will exemplify what we value in humans to a greater degree
- Machines are already making us smarter and will move inside our brains soon
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Phoebe Weston For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 06:53 EDT, 16 March 2017 | UPDATED: 12:56 EDT, 16 March 2017
Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in the next 12 years, according to a Google expert.
This might sound like science fiction, but Google's Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, has made 147 predictions since the 1990s and has a success rate of 86 per cent.
Kurzweil says when we live in a cybernetic society we will have computers in our brains and machines will be smarter than human beings.
He claims this is already happening with technology - especially with our addiction to our phones - and says the next step is to wire this technology into our brains.
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Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in the next 12 years, according to a Google expert. Ray Kurzweil says future cyborg generations will be sexier, smarter and stronger
To the contrary - he believes that implanting computers in our brains will improve us.
'We're going to get more neocortex, we're going to be funnier, we're going to be better at music. We're going to be sexier', he said.
'We're really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree.'
Rather than a vision of the future where machines take over humanity, Kurzweil believes we will create a human-machine synthesis which will improve us.
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Ray Kurzweil, an author who describes himself as a futurist said that by 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence at the the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas (stock image)
MACHINE BRAINS
The process began centuries ago with simple devices such as eyeglasses and ear trumpets that could dramatically improve human lives.
Then came better machines, such as hearing aids; and then machines that could save lives, including pacemakers and dialysis machines.
By the second decade of the 21st Century, we have become used to organs grown in laboratories, genetic surgery and designer babies.
In 2002, medical researchers used enzymes and DNA to build the first molecular computers, and in 2004 improved versions were being injected into people’s veins to fight cancer.
If the trend continues Kurzweil believes carbon and silicon-based intelligence will merge to form a single global consciousness by 2029.
WHAT IS SINGULARITY
Technological singularity is the development of 'superintelligence' brought about through the use of technology.
The first use of the term 'singularity' refer to technological minds was by mathematician John von Neumann in the mid-1950s.
He said: 'ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.'
The term was then used by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge who believes brain-computer interfaces are causes of the singularity.
Ray Kurzweil cited von Neumann's use of the term in a foreword to von Neumann's classic The Computer and the Brain.
Kurzweil predicts the singularity to occur some time in the next 12 years.
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