[ExI] Kurzweil shares five key insights from his new book, The Singularity Is Nearer

[Adrian Tymes]

#2 falls flat.  From the explanation:

"AI has already overtaken humans in many ways. You can ask a large language
model any question about any subject, and it will give you an intelligent
response. Who on earth can do the same?"

Most people with access to Google - which is not itself a large language
model.

That is the only actual evidence offered.  #3 and #5 are similarly shaky,
though not as direly.

On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 6:19 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The article provides the details for each prediction.
> BillK
>
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> https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/merging-ai-mean-humanity-according-futurist-ray-kurzweil-bookbite/50146/
> >
>
> Quotes:
> 1. Information technology is advancing at an exponential rate.
> 2. Artificial intelligence will reach and immediately soar past
>     human-level intelligence by 2029.
> 3. We will solve aging in the next five to ten years by applying AI to
> medicine.
> 4. AI is about to leap from transforming the digital world to
>     transforming the physical world.
> 5. By 2045, we will reach the Singularity and expand our intelligence
>     a millionfold.
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