Tech prophet who predicted the iPhone years in advance makes alarming forecasts for coming years
* After 2029, humans will begin to merge with machines
• Dead people will come back first as simulations – then as ‘printed’ living bodies
A tech expert with a track record of predicting sea changes in the industry has made several eye-popping new forecasts in a new book.
Google’s Ray Kurzweil famously predicted the iPhone era and the fact that a computer would beat someone at chess by 1998.
In his new book, ‘The Singularity is Nearer’, Kurzweil predicts that humans fully merge with AI, becoming immortal cyborgs, by 2045.
He also predicts that advancements in AI will make it possible to resurrect loved ones and connect our brains to cloud technology, in what he calls the ‘fifth epoch’ of human intelligence.
The singularity is the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually surpass human intelligence, fundamentally changing human existence.
Kurzweil writes: ‘Babies born today will be just graduating college when the Singularity happens.
‘Eventually nanotechnology will enable these trends to culminate in directly expanding our brains with layers of virtual neurons in the cloud.
‘In this way we will merge with AI. These are the most exciting years in all of history.’
He says that recent breakthroughs in AI such as ChatGPT show that his 2005 prediction in his first book ‘The Singularity is Near’ was correct, and ‘the trajectory is clear’.
His most shocking predictions are below:
The dead will come back to life
Kurzweil believes that AI technology holds the promise to ‘bring back’ the dead – at first in the form of simulations which replicate a person, then physically back to life.