Ray Kurzweil on what the future holds next

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🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Join head of TED Chris Anderson for a very special conversation with legendary inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, recorded live onstage at TED2018. Listen in to hear what the man who makes a living from predicting the future arc of technology thinks is coming our way next -- including a specific prediction of when he thinks technology will finally gain human levels of language understanding.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone.
0:01.8	You're about to hear an episode from another podcast from TED called The Ted Interview.
0:07.2	It's hosted by the head of Ted, Chris Anderson.
0:10.4	Chris sits down with legendary inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil.
0:15.5	Listen in to hear what he has to say about the future arc of technology,
0:19.9	including his prediction of when technology will
0:22.3	gain human levels of language understanding. If you enjoy this episode, you can subscribe to the
0:28.4	TED interview wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the TED interview. I'm Chris Anderson, and this is the podcast series where I sit down with a TED interview.
0:39.8	I'm Chris Anderson, and this is the podcast series,
0:41.7	where I sit down with a TED speaker,
0:45.1	and we get to dive much deeper into their ideas than was possible during their TED talk.
0:48.5	Today's episode was recorded live at the TED conference.
0:52.3	It's a conversation with inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil.
0:57.3	Ray is probably best known for articulating the idea that technological change is accelerating,
1:05.5	relentlessly. It has been for years, and it's going to continue to accelerate.
1:10.3	Culminating in this event in the not-too-distant future called The Singularity,
1:15.4	when computers are suddenly so much more intelligent than humans,
1:20.2	that all bets are off.
1:22.2	Change happens at an unimaginable pace.
1:25.7	Now, this belief, which Ray has set out in a series of compelling books, has encouraged him
1:32.3	to make a spectacular series of predictions about the future.
1:37.1	When I spoke to Ray at TED, I asked him about his vision of the future.
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