The Last 6 Decades of AI — and What Comes Next | Ray Kurzweil | TED

A thirteen-minute TED talk compressing sixty-one years in AI — ‘a record,’ he notes, having joined the field in 1962, six years after it got its name, when the polite consensus was that it would never happen. He retells how he arrived at 2029 for human-level AI, then extends the exponential curves forward: longevity escape velocity somewhere between 2029 and 2035, and nanobots connecting our brains to the cloud — thinking, he argues, that will make us thousands of times more intelligent.