Ray Kurzweil’s Vision of the Singularity, In Movie Form
destinyland writes “AI researcher Ben Goertzel peeks at the new Ray Kurzweil movie (Transcendent Man), and gives it ‘two nano-enhanced cyberthumbs way, way up!’ But in an exchange with Kurzweil after the screening, Goertzel debates the post-human future, asking whether individuality can survive in a machine-augmented brain. The documentary covers radical futurism, but also includes alternate viewpoints. ‘Would I build these machines, if I knew there was a strong chance they would destroy humanity?’ asks evolvable hardware researcher Hugo de Garis. His answer? ‘Yeah.'” Note, the movie is about Kurzweil and futurism, not by Kurzweil.
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