What does one of the leading experts on artificial intelligence see on the horizon?

The reason that we don't get smarter is we have a limited size for our brain but if we can actually go outside of our

brain and into the cloud the cloud right now is expanding exponentially we'll be

able to think much deeper thoughts it's Wednesday Juneth, and just like every day, today is Science Friday.

I'm Cyfry producer Kathleen Davis.

Ray Kurtzweil has been in the field of artificial intelligence for more than 60 years,

longer than probably anybody else.

One of his biggest accomplishments is coining the term the singularity the idea that man and

machine will merge as the next stage of evolution.

Ray's new book The Singularity is nearer when we merge with AI is out this month.

Here he is talking to Ira Flato.

Joining me now is futurist and inventor Ray Kurtzweil, author of the new book,

the singularity is nearer when we merge with AI.

Ray has worked with artificial intelligence

in that field for more than 60 years years I'm going to guess longer than probably

any other person alive. Welcome back to Science Friday Ray.

Yeah, great to be here again.

Nice to have you. You know when when you look at the last 20 years is it hard for you not to just yell I told you so? I mean has it gone the way you thought it would?

Well other people are saying that in 1999.

I predicted by 2029, we'd reach the Turing test

and also AGI, where basically computer can do anything

a human can do.

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