Computers that look like you
Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 5:53 am
Google's New Head of Engineering
Google's new Head of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil introduced his latest book: How to create a mind: the secret of human thought revealed . In his presentation he gave his vision that our brains have been provided with the neo-cortexraykurzweil in evolution , the wrinkled thin shell that lies over the brain and that entire groups of cells in it are actually nothing more than a group of pattern recognizers . Humans are born with 300 million of these pattern recognizers, in which fixed patterns have already been created. Then we learn to recognize these patterns and to add meaning to them in layers of increasingly higher abstraction. So patterns through which we recognize letters, to words, to concepts such as love, happiness, etc. The same applies to images where we give meanings.
His view of the brain is that our identity is caused by the history of stored impressions that we have had in our lives. Intelligence latvia phone number list is seeing the analogy of impressions with similar other impressions. For example, a good scientist can make a discovery by seeing an analogy in another scientific field. For example, Darwin , who got the slow adaptations in evolution from the work of the geologist Lyell , who saw that a minuscule stream of water over millions of years can create a Grand Canyon.
Because computer technology and software algorithms make quantum steps every two years and not only by Moore's law , it will be possible, according to Ray Kurzweil, within twenty years to reproduce all the impressions in the brain of a person in a digital medium. And thus literally to have copied the mind of that person.
evolutionincalculation
Conscious and awareness
The question that remains is whether that copy is also conscious and then there is the question of what consciousness is. This was discussed extensively and lively.
IBM's Watson shows that knowledge in the cloud can be unlocked in an impressive way with a computer . watsonjeopardyThat is the computer program that won Jeopardy (a very popular quiz show in the US) from the two best human players. Watson looks at billions of documents and makes statements about true or false with the help of statistical analysis ( Baysean ) and with astonishing results. Is Watson aware?
Currently, SIRI on the iPhone uses the same type of statistical analysis to answer your questions. Microsoft's Bing also has this type of technology locked into it, which is provided by Wolfram Alpha in Bing .
Ray Kurzweil is now 64 and, according to him, has a boss for the first time in his life, namely Google's CEO Larry Page . They are working together to make Google understand what Google indexes, instead of just applying the Markov algorithms of Google's pagerank based on text comparison . Making Google intelligent, by 'seeing' analogy. Is Google becoming self-aware in this way? The first major opening will focus on medical knowledge.
Computers and software are evolving into the complete extension tool of the brain. To reaching up with a stick to knock a fruit from a tree on the way to a complete copy of ourselves in 7 million years of evolution .
Seeing someone else who looks like them is a strong source of trust and interaction for people. This has been known for a long time in political science, where for years now pictures of political candidates have been photographically morphed to a target group. Research at Stanford has shown that you believe a stranger most if he or she looks like you. Avatars that are copies of yourself are used in Second Life, for example.
ishigurocopyJapanese professor Ishiguro creates avatars that are like yourself and react. Ishiguro performs with a robot copy of himself. He is not so much concerned with far-reaching brain copies in the avatars, but much more with displaying human reactions. Delivering a robot with character and human qualities.
Including, very human, sometimes not reacting to something. So not a submissive service-oriented industrial robot, but a human avatar with character. The avatar of Prof. Ishiguro is focused on social interaction. And that can be very interesting for advertising purposes. For example, put such an avatar in the café or in the shop window.
Recently he has an avatar that has a very expressive head and a ghostly body. Ishiguro grandpaSee the video where a grandpa talks to an avatar grandchild . This avatar is currently being used very successfully in a senior nursing home in Denmark. He has also developed a 'smartphone enabled huggie'.
Martijn Lampert, the research director of Motivaction and I are now working on linking this type of avatar to Mentality groups. It is known that bringing seniors from the same Mentality group together has a great influence on the well-being of the seniors.
Google's new Head of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil introduced his latest book: How to create a mind: the secret of human thought revealed . In his presentation he gave his vision that our brains have been provided with the neo-cortexraykurzweil in evolution , the wrinkled thin shell that lies over the brain and that entire groups of cells in it are actually nothing more than a group of pattern recognizers . Humans are born with 300 million of these pattern recognizers, in which fixed patterns have already been created. Then we learn to recognize these patterns and to add meaning to them in layers of increasingly higher abstraction. So patterns through which we recognize letters, to words, to concepts such as love, happiness, etc. The same applies to images where we give meanings.
His view of the brain is that our identity is caused by the history of stored impressions that we have had in our lives. Intelligence latvia phone number list is seeing the analogy of impressions with similar other impressions. For example, a good scientist can make a discovery by seeing an analogy in another scientific field. For example, Darwin , who got the slow adaptations in evolution from the work of the geologist Lyell , who saw that a minuscule stream of water over millions of years can create a Grand Canyon.
Because computer technology and software algorithms make quantum steps every two years and not only by Moore's law , it will be possible, according to Ray Kurzweil, within twenty years to reproduce all the impressions in the brain of a person in a digital medium. And thus literally to have copied the mind of that person.
evolutionincalculation
Conscious and awareness
The question that remains is whether that copy is also conscious and then there is the question of what consciousness is. This was discussed extensively and lively.
IBM's Watson shows that knowledge in the cloud can be unlocked in an impressive way with a computer . watsonjeopardyThat is the computer program that won Jeopardy (a very popular quiz show in the US) from the two best human players. Watson looks at billions of documents and makes statements about true or false with the help of statistical analysis ( Baysean ) and with astonishing results. Is Watson aware?
Currently, SIRI on the iPhone uses the same type of statistical analysis to answer your questions. Microsoft's Bing also has this type of technology locked into it, which is provided by Wolfram Alpha in Bing .
Ray Kurzweil is now 64 and, according to him, has a boss for the first time in his life, namely Google's CEO Larry Page . They are working together to make Google understand what Google indexes, instead of just applying the Markov algorithms of Google's pagerank based on text comparison . Making Google intelligent, by 'seeing' analogy. Is Google becoming self-aware in this way? The first major opening will focus on medical knowledge.
Computers and software are evolving into the complete extension tool of the brain. To reaching up with a stick to knock a fruit from a tree on the way to a complete copy of ourselves in 7 million years of evolution .
Seeing someone else who looks like them is a strong source of trust and interaction for people. This has been known for a long time in political science, where for years now pictures of political candidates have been photographically morphed to a target group. Research at Stanford has shown that you believe a stranger most if he or she looks like you. Avatars that are copies of yourself are used in Second Life, for example.
ishigurocopyJapanese professor Ishiguro creates avatars that are like yourself and react. Ishiguro performs with a robot copy of himself. He is not so much concerned with far-reaching brain copies in the avatars, but much more with displaying human reactions. Delivering a robot with character and human qualities.
Including, very human, sometimes not reacting to something. So not a submissive service-oriented industrial robot, but a human avatar with character. The avatar of Prof. Ishiguro is focused on social interaction. And that can be very interesting for advertising purposes. For example, put such an avatar in the café or in the shop window.
Recently he has an avatar that has a very expressive head and a ghostly body. Ishiguro grandpaSee the video where a grandpa talks to an avatar grandchild . This avatar is currently being used very successfully in a senior nursing home in Denmark. He has also developed a 'smartphone enabled huggie'.
Martijn Lampert, the research director of Motivaction and I are now working on linking this type of avatar to Mentality groups. It is known that bringing seniors from the same Mentality group together has a great influence on the well-being of the seniors.