Ray Kurzweil Quotes About Giving
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
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Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.
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Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
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Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
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