Ray Kurzweil

Salim, let's go to you next.

Yeah.

Can't wait to read that.

So, Ray, I've heard you speak, I think, 62 times.

I have one today.

What's very annoying is that I don't think I've ever not learned something, which is really annoying.

And I remember one of my favorites was we were having a late night conversation with one of the classes of singularity and the inevitable question about consciousness came up.

And you said, language is a really thin pipe to discuss concepts as rich as that.

That was such a brilliant framing of that discussion, and it comes up always in our conversations here.

I want to kind of ask you a language question.

You talk a lot about computers or AI being smarter than humans, and my beef is, what do we mean by smarter?

And I was wondering if you could drill down a little bit on what do you mean by that, because it's not just processes per second, et cetera.

There's a lot more to it.

How do you frame or define or subdivide smarter?

I mean, AI is already smarter than most humans.

And it can actually do research that's much better than we can do.

Because it can actually look, let's say, at a...

something that might be a medicine and can actually consider a billion possibilities and test each one and actually test it with fidelity and decide which one of the billion is actually the medicine.

Humans can't do that.

Maybe we can consider a few.