Barry Ptolemy's Transcendent Man: Ray Kurzweil's Predictions about the Future of Technology
Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor, futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book, The Singularity is Near. In the film, Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the world as he discusses his thoughts on the Technological Singularity, a proposed advancement that will occur sometime in the 21st century when progress in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics will result in the creation of a human-machine civilization. The Technological Singularity, or simply the singularity, is a theoretical moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence that will "radically change human civilization, and perhaps even human nature itself " .
The possibility of a Technological Singularity is a key issue for the future of the artificial intelligence (AI) community and of human society. If the Singularity occurs, it is very likely that the main social and technological problems facing us will then be eliminated, for better or worse.
To achieve Technological Singularity many futurists have determined the "ways forward" like:
1. The development of a computer or a robot that exceed human intelligence (and therefore would be autonomous, thinking, able to make their own decisions by previous analyzes).
2. The modification of our processing capacity by methods of genetic modification or cranial modification.
The second option is not feasible in the short term as disciplines such as biotechnology and bioengineering are still very new and involve an ethical and moral, given the need for human experimentation, where there will be an obvious resistance to this type of society activity.
The first option is the most favorable for our species, and we currently have an exponential increase of inventions and technological projects in the field, which apparently will not stop.
However, no matter which of the two options
The possibility of a Technological Singularity is a key issue for the future of the artificial intelligence (AI) community and of human society. If the Singularity occurs, it is very likely that the main social and technological problems facing us will then be eliminated, for better or worse.
To achieve Technological Singularity many futurists have determined the "ways forward" like:
1. The development of a computer or a robot that exceed human intelligence (and therefore would be autonomous, thinking, able to make their own decisions by previous analyzes).
2. The modification of our processing capacity by methods of genetic modification or cranial modification.
The second option is not feasible in the short term as disciplines such as biotechnology and bioengineering are still very new and involve an ethical and moral, given the need for human experimentation, where there will be an obvious resistance to this type of society activity.
The first option is the most favorable for our species, and we currently have an exponential increase of inventions and technological projects in the field, which apparently will not stop.
However, no matter which of the two options