Kurzweil articulated many of his early ideas on Singularity at an AI symposium held in 2001. RealPlayer video of all the sessions used to be available through Dr. Dobb's Journal's TechNetCast feature. I watched them all and they were very, very interesting -- both for and against. Great stuff.
I tried to locate a link to them for this post but TechNetCast seems no more and DDJ's site doesn't bear fruit either. If anyone here knows where they might be found please share -- they are definitely worth the time.
Since then, Kurzweil has certainly pursued his beliefs (books, speeches, press, etc.) with these graduates being the latest expression of those ideas.
I tend to agree more with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Michael Anissimov than Kurzweil about this stuff, but the video above is still worth watching (much much better than his TED video, which was too short to allow him to make his main points).
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Kurzweil articulated many of his early ideas on Singularity at an AI symposium held in 2001. RealPlayer video of all the sessions used to be available through Dr. Dobb's Journal's TechNetCast feature. I watched them all and they were very, very interesting -- both for and against. Great stuff.
I tried to locate a link to them for this post but TechNetCast seems no more and DDJ's site doesn't bear fruit either. If anyone here knows where they might be found please share -- they are definitely worth the time.
Since then, Kurzweil has certainly pursued his beliefs (books, speeches, press, etc.) with these graduates being the latest expression of those ideas.
My introduction to Kurzweil was this lecture he gave at MIT in 2005:
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/327/
I then read The Singularity is Near.
I tend to agree more with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Michael Anissimov than Kurzweil about this stuff, but the video above is still worth watching (much much better than his TED video, which was too short to allow him to make his main points).
In other news, use of Real Player has pushed the date of the Singularity back by 5 years.