Mr Kurzweil’s comments resurfaced in a two-part YouTube series by vlogger Adagio.
Former Google engineer and prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that humans would achieve immortality with the help of nanobots in just seven years.
The 75-year-old computer scientist, who was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1999 and inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022, has made this shocking prediction for the past few decades. His comments resurfaced online in a two-part YouTube series By vlogger Adagio.
The videos, which have collectively racked up thousands of views, revisit Mr. Kurzweil’s claims in his 2005 book, The singularity is near. He predicted that technology would allow humans to achieve eternal life by 2030. He also said that current developments and expansion in genetics, robotics and nanotechnology will allow nanobots to flow into our veins in the near future.
According to New York Postthe former Google engineer also said that “2029 is the fixed date I predicted when AI would pass a valid visa.” [Alan] Turing test and thus achieve levels of human intelligence.
“I have set the date of 2045 for the ‘singularity’ which is when we will multiply by one billion our effective intelligence by merging with [artificial] “We did intelligence,” he added.
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According to Kurzweil, in less than a decade, humans will also have created technology to ward off aging and disease using microscopic robots, sent to repair our bodies at the cellular level. He also claimed that such nanotechnology would allow people to eat whatever they want while remaining lean and energetic.
Now, according to to postWhile Kurzweil’s predictions seem somewhat outlandish to some, many of his earlier claims have come true. He predicted that consumers would be able to design their own clothes with the exact fit and style requirements of personal computers by 1999. He also said that the best chess player in the world would lose to the computer by 2000, and that people would mainly use laptops with a large number of sizes and shapes by 2009.
