What if death was no longer inevitable? Ray Kurzweil is a recognized futureologist and chief engineer at Google, and he has just advanced a fairly daring prediction: Immortality could become accessible by 2030. This visionary who has a nice track-story since past predictions have often turned out to be just-he had in particular anticipated the boom in the Internet, the advent of smartphones and the victory of a computer over a world chess champion-now sees a future where the merger between man and the machine will allow us to exceed our biological limits.
Transform the human condition
This perspective is based on the concept of technological singularity, a moment when theThe progress in artificial intelligence, biotechnology and nanotechnology will converge to radically transform the human condition. Taken up by our colleagues from JV Tech, Kurzweil explains in particular that we approach the “Longevity exhaust rate” which is a threshold where medical advances will allow Each year to lengthen life expectancy of more than a year… Thus making death linked to gradually obsolete age.
Besides, he also imagines a Man-Machine integration via neural implants and brain-II interfaces Who will be able to improve cognitive capacities, save memory and even “download” consciousness. Companies like Neuralink or even Interfaces are already developing brain-machine interfaces and regenerative medicine is progressing rapidly thanks to gene therapies and stem cells, which promise to treat diseases related to aging.
However, this revolution also raises major ethical, economic and societal issues : A humanity where natural death would be almost eliminated would pose considerable demographic challenges, and in particular in terms of resource management and overcrowding.
Ethically, the possibility of transferring consciousness to a digital medium questions the very definition of identity and human life. In addition, access to these technologies could dig inequalities and only the wealthy could afford it. Finally, society should rethink its economic and social models such as work and retirement!
Ray Kurzweil remains a visionary with credibility which is reinforced by the precision of his past predictions. He himself recognized that singularity, when when Artificial intelligence will reach and exceed that of man (which has already happened on certain exercises), could occur around 2045,With a key step in 2029 where an AI would pass a valid Turing test. Case to follow.
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