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Ray Kurzweil Wants to Upload Your Brain to the Cloud

I had no idea who https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil, the famed futurist, was before his keynote closing out https://thenewstack.io/mongodb-6-0-brings-encrypted-queries-time-series-data-collection/ but I will never forget him. In the 1980s, after a meeting with Stevie Wonder, he pioneered a synthesizer that could mimic real instruments.

Today’s keynote https://twitter.com/raykurzweil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw says we will see 175 years of AI progress in the next 10 years.

Kurzweil explained that all organs except for the heart and brain essentially, “put things into the blood or take them out.”

His proof for things getting better came in this statement, “24,000 people were asked have extreme poverty gotten better or worse 70% said it got worse.