This will allow people to send emails and photos directly to each other’s brains while also backing up our thoughts and memories. Sebastian Kaulittzki/Science Photo/Corbis.
Humans will soon be implanting tiny computers in their brains to make themselves smarter, funnier and sexier, a prominent futurist has predicted.
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, has made a name for himself through his predictions. Since the 1990s, he has made 147 predictions, 86% of which have come true.
Speaking at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, this week, Kurzweil predicted that “the singularity” – the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence – will occur in 2029.
“By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence,” said Kurzweil, according to The Mirror UK.
“That leads to computers having human intelligence, our putting them inside our brains, connecting them to the cloud, expanding who we are.
“Today, that’s not just a future scenario. It’s here, in part, and it’s going to accelerate.”
Kurzweil said that machines are already “powering all of us”, in the sense that they are making us smarter.
However, by the 2030s, he believes that scientists will have found a way to connect a human neocortex – the part of the brain where we do our thinking – to the cloud.
Critics? Dennis Sullivan, a medical doctor and director of the Center for Bioethics at Cedarville University, a Baptist school in Ohio, called Kurzweil’s comments a “slap in the face of our Savior.”
Sullivan told The Christian Post that although he has never met Kurzweil he has followed his work for years, and he speculates that the Google director takes “maybe 50 to 75” supplements per day.
“He personally must be terrified of his own death,” Sullivan mused.
In modern times, he explained, “because of the technological revolution, people are saying ‘I want to be better than well. I want to improve,'” which goes far beyond both the “Do No Harm” ethical principle in the Hippocratic oath that physicians abide by and the Christian impulse to alleviate suffering in a fallen world.
“Theologically, I always thought that was a slap in the face to God who said that ‘This is very good’ in Genesis 1 after creating man. And they’re saying ‘Not so good, and in fact we can do better.’ I find that very, very arrogant.” He told CP, adding that he would then label Ray Kurzweil’s philosophy as inherently “anti-Christ.”
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