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, June 19th, and just like every day, today is Science Friday.

I'm Cyfry producer Kathleen Davis. Ray Kurzweil 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 Kurzweil, 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.

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 you look at the last 20 years, is it hard for you not to just, yeah, 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 reached a

Turing test and also AGI, where basically a computer can do anything a human can do. People

met that with a great deal of skepticism.

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