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Is about. what he calls rejuvenation and reversing aging. so at least the right people just dont have to die anymore. >> rejuvenation and reversing aging does not fit the narrow definition of singularity. theres no business model. its scientifically achievable. i think most of us believe that. >> scientifically achievable. most of us believe that. when he says rejuvenation and reversing aging, to be clear, hes not talking about better skin care that makes your wrinkles disappear as if you have r...

>> kevin, whats to stop other companies from playing the same game? >> nothing. but thats the whole point. its actually a debate amongst the country, the president, the corporation, its boards, this is a dialogue that trump promised to give. you know, bernie can yell all he wants about this being a bad thing, hes a loser. and he has every right to say whatever he wants a as critic, but he is not in power. donald trump is about to be on january 20th. and trump promised this kind of singularity. a...

What is this guy talking about? >> psicyborg baby. he says humans will make a bio biological leap well merge with machines and finally be able to conquer death, because as our parts fail we can replace them with hardware. and, therefore, if we get where -- >> weve been doing this since the 70s. >> but have we shep? do you know any actual cyborgs? >> no but ive seen the million dollar man. >> google wasting millions of dollars, singularity university they hired raymond, the guy who invented the t...

Story. >> hey, greg do you pay taxes or are you so hot you ask for a furnace? >> will the boss be tops? they predict that by 2025 machines will be the dominant species on the planet. he says unless the government steps in to regulate the development of artificial intelligence they will reach the singularity, the point when ai surpasses uni. look at him. what was the point of that picture, people? what happens then? the machines will turn humans into syborgs. we will have more time with arms just...

Interrelating with the computers, and the computers are actually smarter than us. were trying to keep up with them. the singularity, the idea of integration of computers and the human body, self-aware machines. what does this future look like where we have machines that are smarter than us that can actually operate without us? >> well, we already have machines, of course, that are smarter than us on many dimensions. none of us would want to compete with a happenend-held computer math. the real t...

Be able to upload our thoughts? >> i think were already there because our thinking is augmented with our technology. we now wear this kind of on our bodies. and this is intelligent. you can translate languages. you can access all of human knowledge. it is an indirect connection from our brain to the cloud. 100 years from now people will think it was amazing when we went throughout the day without backing up our mind file. if our thinking is partly biological and partly nonbiological, the nonbiol...

When the singularity happens. >> yeah. >> you know, its in the eye of the beholder. if you want to believe in it, i cant tell you not to. >> yeah. >> maybe it is more a matter of faith rather than fact whether technology will lead to my living forever. >> were going to be spending more and more of our time in virtual environments. my brain will be partly biological and non-biological. >> hypothetically. >> but jaron got me thinking, what will it really mean if some of these predictions do come t...

>> look at the future. >> after all -- >> electronic written communication. >> supersonic dishwashers. >> lots of technologies havent quite worked out the way the futurists thought they would. >> the digital world has spawned whats basically a new religion. theres nothing wrong with it. i dont feel its my place to judge someone elses religion. >> so when you hear of the singularity and hear people continually talk about it, you see that much more as kind of a religious movement versus a technolo...

>> thats the singularity. >> right. >> kurzweils calculations predict the singularity will hit in 2045, a time when man and machine will be so connected that we will be able to transcend the limits of biology once and for all. >> could i ultimately end up being another person, looking like another person, becoming someone else with the same memories i have of my life? >> well, were going to be spending more and more of our time in virtual environments. one of the advantages of virtual realities,...

Of our brains to a computer. >> in the future you think well be able to upload our thoughts? >> i think were already there because our thinking is augmented with our technology. we now wear this kind of on our bodies. and this is intelligent. you can translate languages. you can access all of human knowledge. it is an indirect connection from our brain to the cloud. 100 years from now people will think it was amazing when we went throughout the day without backing up our mind file. if our thinki...