Mike Paul

“An estimated 42,915 people died in traffic accidents on US roads in 2021. While there is ongoing debate about how much of this should be attributed to human error, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of crashes have human error as a key component—likely somewhere between 90 and 99 percent. Autonomous vehicles controlled by capable enough AI could eliminate almost all of these.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

“Today, AI’s remaining deficiencies fall into several main categories, most notably: contextual memory, common sense, and social interaction.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

“Then, in March of 2023, GPT-4 was rolled out for public testing via ChatGPT. This model achieved outstanding performance on a wide range of academic tests such as the SAT, the LSAT, AP tests, and the bar exam.[119] But its most important advance was its ability to reason organically about hypothetical situations by understanding the relationships between objects and actions—a capability known as world modeling.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

“A 2019 study showed that a neural net analyzing natural-language clinical metrics was able to diagnose pediatric diseases better than eight junior physicians exposed to the same data—and outperformed all twenty human doctors in some areas.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI