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Transcript: 'How to Predict the Future Like Kevin Kelly'
every.toSam Altman just dropped some new ChatGPT numbers at the NYT Dealbook Summit:
— 300M weekly active users
— 1B messages sent daily
— 1.3M US developers building on the platform
But the bigger story was Sama's AGI timeline: He thinks we could the first glimpses by... See more
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Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
This “law of accelerating returns” applies to all of technology, indeed to any true evolutionary process, and can be measured with remarkable precision in information based technologies. Also, keep in mind that every point on the exponential growth curves underlying these panoply of technologies (see the graphs below) represents an intense human... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Notable examples are the gerontologist Aubrey de Grey and the polymath and inventor Ray Kurzweil (winner of the 1999 US National Medal of Technology and Innovation). In 2012 Kurzweil was appointed a director of engineering at Google, and a year later Google launched a sub-company called Calico whose stated mission is ‘to solve death’.26
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
The following provides a brief overview of the law of accelerating returns as it applies to the double exponential growth of computation. For example, with more powerful computers and related technology, we have the tools and the knowledge to design yet more powerful computers, and to do so more quickly. Independent innovations multiply each... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Another part of what Johnson preaches is staying alive to witness the miracles of the future. Johnson has a long-running love-hate relationship with artificial intelligence. He both fears it and is interested in its power. (Join the club.) He argues that many humans currently walking around Earth will have the chance to live, if not forever, then... See more
Ashlee Vance • Bryan Johnson and the Birth of the Blueprint Religion
Objective and Subjective