In this TED Talk, Sebastian Thrun and Chris Anderson discuss advances in computer power and the radical shift from software engineers writing extensive rules for computers to machines inferring their own rules.
Author: Micheal Palmer
Neil deGrasse Tyson & Ray Kurzweil, “2029: Singularity Year” (±20 minutes)
In this 20 minute program from Tech Insider, Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Ray Kurzweil, one of today’s foremost transhumanists. They discuss Kurzweil’s proposal that we will reach a technological singularity by 2029.