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Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | Lex Fridman Podcast #321
In fact, they did create GPT2, which didn't work.
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So it required a certain amount of timing
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having to do with this exponential growth
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of computing power.
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So futurism in some sense is a study of timing,
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trying to understand how the world will evolve
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and when will the capacity for certain ideas emerge.
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And that's become a thing in itself
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and to try to time things in the future.
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But really its original purpose was to time my products.
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I mean, I did OCR in the 1970s
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because OCR doesn't require a lot of computation.
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Optical character recognition.
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Yeah, so we were able to do that in the 70s
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and I waited till the 80s to address speech recognition
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since that requires more computation.
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So you were thinking through timing
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when you're developing those things.
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Yeah.
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Time come.
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Yeah.
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And that's how you've developed that brain power
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to start to think in a futurist sense
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when how will the world look like in 2045
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and work backwards and how it gets there.
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Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | Lex Fridman Podcast #321
But that has to become a thing in itself
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because looking at what things will be like in the future
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and the future reflects such dramatic changes in how humans will live
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that was worth communicating also.
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So you developed that muscle of predicting the future
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and then applied broadly
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and started to discuss how it changes the world of technology,
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how it changes the world of human life on earth.
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In Danielle, one of your books,
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you write about someone who has the courage
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to question assumptions that limit human imagination
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to solve problems.
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And you also give advice
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on how each of us can have this kind of courage.
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Well, it's good that you picked that quote
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because I think that does symbolize what Danielle is about.
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Courage.
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So how can each of us have that courage
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to question assumptions?
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I mean, we see that when people can go beyond
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the current realm and create something that's new.
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I mean, take Uber, for example.
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Before that existed, you never thought
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that that would be feasible
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and it did require changes in the way people work.
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Is there practical advice as you give in the book
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about what each of us can do to be a Danielle?
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Well, she looks at the situation
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and tries to imagine how she can overcome various obstacles
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and then she goes for it.
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And she's a very good communicator
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so she can communicate these ideas to other people.
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And there's practical advice of learning to program
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and recording your life and things of this nature.
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Become a physicist.
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So you list a bunch of different suggestions
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of how to throw yourself into this world.
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Yeah, I mean, it's kind of an idea
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how young people can actually change the world
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by learning all of these different skills.
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And at the core of that is the belief
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that you can change the world.
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That your mind, your body can change the world.
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Yeah, that's right.
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And not letting anyone else tell you otherwise.
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That's really good, exactly.
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When we upload the story you told about your dad
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and having a conversation with him,
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we're talking about uploading your mind to the computer.
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Do you think we'll have a future
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with something you call afterlife?
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We'll have avatars that mimic increasingly better and better
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our behavior, our appearance, all that kind of stuff.
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Even those that are perhaps no longer with us.
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Yes, I mean, we need some information about them.
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I mean, think about my father.
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I have what he wrote.
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Now, he didn't have a word processor,
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so he didn't actually write that much.
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And our memories of him aren't perfect.
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So how do you even know if you've created something
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that's satisfactory?
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Now, you could do a Frederick Kurzweil Turing test.
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It seems like Frederick Kurzweil to me.
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But the people who remember him, like me,
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don't have a perfect memory.
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Is there such a thing as a perfect memory?
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Maybe the whole point is for him to make you feel
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a certain way.
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Yeah, well, I think that would be the goal.
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And that's the connection we have with loved ones.
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It's not really based on very strict definition of truth.
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It's more about the experiences we share.
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And they get morphed through memory.
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But ultimately, they make us smile.
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