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Google's AI visionary says thanks to nanobots, the tech will resurrect the dead, and we're all going to live forever
Jacqueline Choi
July 20, 2024
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♾️ Google's AI visionary says thanks to nanobots, the tech will resurrect the dead, and we're all going to live forever
🧬 Ex-Meta scientists debut gigantic AI protein design model
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The Guardian has a new interview with Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and computer scientist best-known for his 2005 book The Singularity is Near, with the "Singularity" being the melding of human consciousness and AI. Kurzweil is an authority on AI, and his current job title is remarkable: he is "principal researcher and AI visionary" at Google.
The Singularity is Near predicted that AI would reach the level of human intelligence by 2029, while the great merging of our brains with AI will occur around 2045. Now he's back with a follow-up called The Singularity is Nearer, a title which doesn't need much explanation.
"In the early 2030s we can expect to reach longevity escape velocity where every year of life we lose through aging we get back from scientific progress," says Kurzweil. “The capability to bring back departed humans digitally will bring up some interesting societal and legal questions."
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An artificial intelligence (AI) model that speaks the language of proteins — one of the largest yet developed for biology — has been used to create new fluorescent molecules.
The proof-of-principle demonstration was announced this month by EvolutionaryScale in New York City, alongside US$142 million in new funding to apply its model to drug development, sustainability and other pursuits.
The company, launched by scientists who previously worked at tech giant Meta, is the latest entrant in an increasingly crowded field that is applying cutting-edge machine-learning models trained on language and images to biological data.
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