One of the greatest and most ambitious objectives of the human being is to find a “source of life” that allows us to cheat death and live forever. Despite the fact that many consider it impossible, a group of scientists affirms that this dream could come true in the next eight years.
According to predictions of the futurist and computer scientist Ray Kurzweilthe human race could achieve immortality by 2030 with the support of technological advances and artificial intelligence.
Kurzweil has said that there are different steps in the search for eternal life, the first of which would be when the artificial intelligence (AI) reaches the intelligence of the human beingsomething that would happen around 2029, according to the scientist.
The human being could increase his life expectancy “more than a year every year”
2029 is the consistent date that I have predicted for when an AI will pass a valid Turing test and thus reach human levels of intelligence,” he told Futurism.
On the other hand, he reported that immortality as such must wait until 2045when the technology advances enough to be able to be processed by the bodywithout health hazards.
I have set the date 2045 for the ‘Singularity’, which is when we will multiply our effective intelligence by 1 billion by merging with the intelligence we have created.”
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However, it revealed that as of 2030, the human race could increase its life expectancy by “more than a year every year and I think we can get there by the end of this decade.”
Ray Kurzweil is notable for having predicted some of the “weirdest” technological advances of recent years, such as a computer could beat the best chess player by the year 2000 or that the smart cell phones They would be the future of communication.