Ray Kurzweil, a computer scientist and futurist, called the time frame when humanity will be able to achieve immortality, and artificial intelligence - the singularity.. The scientist is known for several predictions that have already come true, if these turn out to be true, it will not be long to wait, reports IFLScience.

Kurzweil's predictions that have come true include, for example, the one he made in 1990. Then he said that by the year 2000 the computer will beat the world champion in chess, and also predicted the advent of portable computers and smartphones, the transition to more wireless technologies, and foresaw the rapid development of the Internet before it became obvious to everyone..

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In 2010, he revised his own predictions made 20 years ago to determine how accurate they were.. Kurzweil claims that out of 147 predictions made in 1990 through the 2010s, 115 were “completely correct,” 12 were “essentially correct,” and only three were completely wrong..

That is, although Kurzweil's claims about immortality are quite bold and most likely erroneous, they should not be discounted..

So, according to him, by 2030 humanity will be able to " Theoretically, in the future, this can lead to the achievement of eternal life..

In 2017, the futurist also predicted when artificial intelligence could pass the Turing test..

“2029 is the exact date I have set for AI to pass the Turing test and therefore reach human levels of intelligence..

I have set a date of 2045 for the "

According to Kurzweil, the singularity is not something to be afraid of, but something that can “improve” people, making us “god-like”.

“If I want to access 10,000 computers for two seconds, I can do it wirelessly and [my computing power] multiplies 10,000 times in the cloud…” he explains.

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