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Raymond C. Kurzweil
Researcher at Wellesley College
Publications - 72
Citations - 8193
Raymond C. Kurzweil is an academic researcher from Wellesley College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Digital image processing & Reading (process). The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 71 publications receiving 7447 citations.
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
TL;DR: A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from Ray Kurzweil, whom Bill Gates calls "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence".
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The Singularity Is Near
TL;DR: This chapter presents and defends Ray Kurzweil’s view that the authors will reach a technological singularity in the next few decades, which he defines as a period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.
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The age of spiritual machines: when computers exceed human intelligence
TL;DR: The Age of Spiritual Machines as mentioned in this paper is a framework for envisioning the 21st century in which one advance or invention leads inexorably to another, and the upshot is that human identity will be called into question as never before, as a billion years of evolution are superseded in a mere hundred by machine technology that we ourselves have created.
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LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
Romal Thoppilan,Daniel Adiwardana,Jamie Hall,Noam Shazeer,Apoorv Kulshreshtha,Heng-Tze Cheng,Alicia Jin,Taylor Bos,Leslie Baker,Yu Du,Yaguang Li,Hongrae Lee,Huaixiu Zheng,Amin Ghafouri,Marcelo Menegali,Yanping Huang,Maxim Krikun,Dmitry Lepikhin,James Qin,Dehao Chen,Yuanzhong Xu,Zhifeng Chen,Adam Roberts,Maarten Bosma,Yaoqi Zhou,Chung-Ching Chang,I. A. Krivokon,Willard J. Rusch,Marc Pickett,Kathleen S. Meier-Hellstern,Meredith Ringel Morris,Tulsee Doshi,Renelito Delos Santos,Toju Duke,Johnny Hartz Søraker,Bendert Zevenbergen,Velu Prabhakaran,Mark Díaz,Ben Hutchinson,Kristen Olson,Alejandra Aguirre Molina,Erin Hoffman-John,Josh Lee,Lora Aroyo,Ravindran Rajakumar,Alena Butryna,Matthew Lamm,V. O. Kuzmina,Joseph Fenton,Aaron Cohen,Rachel Bernstein,Raymond C. Kurzweil,Blaise Aguera-Arcas,Claire Cui,Marian Rogers Croak,Ed H. Chi,Quoc Hoai Le +56 more
TL;DR: The authors presented LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications, a family of Transformer-based neural language models specialized for dialog, which have up to 137B parameters and are pre-trained on 1.56T words of public dialog data and web text and demonstrate that fine-tuning with annotated data and enabling the model to consult external knowledge sources can lead to significant improvements towards the two key challenges of safety and factual grounding.