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Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" in 1965 [Video]
- mynameishere 19y agoWhere does a 17-year-old get the bankroll to build a computer in 1965?
- aswanson 19y agoWith enough memory to write a composition, no less?
- aneesh 19y agoRay Kurzweil has an insatiable curiosity. I talked with him recently, and even at his age, he was trying to learn all he can about cancer biology (which is not even his field) from the top people. If he was even half as intellectually curious as a teen, it doesn't surprise me he found a way to build a computer.
- jorgeortiz85 19y agoOhh, AI. Every decade we say human-level AI is merely a decade away. And every decade we are again disappointed. Poor Kurzweil. He's spent a lifetime on this obsession, and computers are no closer to being true composers than they were in 1965.
- strey 19y agoWhy do we give AI so much leeway? Most other fields, this level of performance would have caused it to be ditched ages ago. I'm guessing because it implies so much, and it seems so possible: mind from brains, brains from evolution.