Within a few years, Kurzweil estimates, the price range will be low enough for every school and library to own one.
库兹韦尔估计，在几年内，价格区间将低到足以让每所学校和图书馆都拥有一个。
Kurzweil and his associates are preparing a smaller but improved version that will sell for less than half that price.
库兹韦尔和他的同事们正在准备一个更小但经过改进的版本，售价还不到这个价格的一半。
A young scientist named Raymond Kurzweil has now designed a computer which is a major breakthrough in providing aid to the sightless.
一位名叫雷蒙德·库兹韦尔的年轻科学家设计出了一台电脑，这是为盲人提供帮助的一个重大突破。
Kurzweil hopes to bring his dead father back to life.
库兹韦尔甚至希望自己已经去世的父亲可以复活。
This is, Kurzweil believes, our destiny as a species.
库兹韦尔相信这就是人类作为一个种族的终极命运。
By that time Kurzweil was thinking about the Singularity too.
其时的库兹韦尔也在思考奇点理论。
“I think relinquishment is a bad idea for three reasons, ” says Kurzweil.
“我认为技术放弃是一种很糟糕的想法，主要出于三个方面的考虑，”库兹韦尔说。
According to Kurzweil, we're not evolved to think in terms of exponential growth.
库兹韦尔认为，人类甚至无法适应这种指数增长式的思维方式。
Kurzweil puts the date of the Singularity — never say he's not conservative — at 2045.
库兹韦尔预测，如果保守估计的话，奇点将在2045年到来。
The Kurzweil version of technological utopia has captured imaginations in Silicon Valley.
库兹威尔的技术乌托邦设想在硅谷激发了科技人员的想象力。
Under the hood of the PC3X is simply the most powerful synthesis engine ever created by Kurzweil.
根据该PC3X罩仅仅是有史以来最强大的合成引擎由库兹威尔创建。
The institute holds an annual conference called the Singularity Summit. (Kurzweil co-founded that too.)
人工智能奇点研究所每年都会召开名为奇点峰会的研讨会(库兹韦尔也是发起者之一)。
Kurzweil is 60, takes 250 vitamins and other supplements a day, and believes some of them can turn back ageing.
库兹韦尔六十岁，不过他每天要吃二百五十片维生素和各类补品，并对他们中的一些人可以返老还童深信不疑。
Human civilization will come to an end by 2045, US inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil says in a Time magazine interview.
据美国《时代》周刊报道，美国著名发明家、未来学家雷·库兹韦尔在近期接受该杂志采访时预言，人类文明将在2045年终结。
This position doesn't make Kurzweil an outlier, at least among Singularitarians. Plenty of people make more-extreme predictions.
这样的定位并未使库兹韦尔成为一个异类，至少在奇点主义者内部不是，他们之中有很多人的预测甚至更为极端。
"The sceptical science writer John Horgan asked Kurzweil, who replied:" the key to the singularity is amplifying intelligence.
富有怀疑精神的科普作家约翰·霍根就此问题向库兹韦尔发问，对方答道：“奇点关键在于对智能的放大。”
Optimists, such as Raymond Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near, foresee an AI utopia in which human and machine intelligence combine.
乐观主义者，比如撰写《奇异点已近》一文的RaymondKurzweil，预见到了一个人机和谐的人工智能乌托邦。
The kind of intelligence Kurzweil is talking about, which is called strong AI or artificial general intelligence, doesn't exist yet.
库兹韦尔所讨论的那种智慧——即强人工智能或人工通用智能现在还不存在。
You may reject every specific article of the Singularitarian charter, but you should admire Kurzweil for taking the future seriously.
也许你会排斥奇点主义者共同纲领里的每一篇具体文章，但你不能不钦佩库兹韦尔对待未来的严肃态度。
And then what we see in the singularity, that prophesized by Kurzweil and others -- his idea that technology is accelerating evolution.
而我们在这独特性中看到的由库茨魏尔和其他人所预言的-他认为的科技正在加速演化。
Ray Kurzweil, a respected computer scientist, serial inventor and futurist, predicted that some 55m robots would be in circulation by 2010.
雷•库兹维尔是一位受人尊敬的计算机科学家、拥有一系列发明的发明家和未来学家。他预测在2010年之前会有5500万台机器人投入使用。
According to Kurzweil, "the cost per watt of solar energy is coming down rapidly and the total amount of solar energy is growing exponentially."
据库兹威尔说：“太阳能的每瓦成本正在迅速下降，而太阳能总量正在成倍增长。”
Kurzweil yields no ground there whatsoever. He does not see any fundamental difference between flesh and silicon that would prevent the latter from thinking.
在库兹韦尔看来，这根本就不是问题，他觉得血肉和硅元素之间不存在本质区别，后者完全可以产生思想。
Ray Kurzweil, the world's leading AI visionary and Google's director of engineering, predicts we could have Samantha-like girlfriends or boyfriends by 2029.
全球人工智能领域领军人、谷歌工程总监雷·库兹韦尔曾预测，到2029年我们就能拥有像萨曼莎这样的男/女朋友。
On the show (see the clip on YouTube), the beauty queen did a good job of grilling Kurzweil, but the comedian got the win: the music was composed by a computer.
在节目中，虽然选美皇后抛出的大把问题难住了库兹韦尔，但最后得出答案的却是喜剧演员，原来这段钢琴曲是电脑创作的。
By 2045, Kurzweil says, we will have expanded the capacity for intelligence of our civilization -comprised by that stage of both software and people -one billion fold.
到了2045年，库兹韦尔说，我们文明的智能—包括那个阶段的软件和人在内，其能力将会被扩充十亿倍。
And what of the larger future of AI? Optimists, such as Raymond Kurzweil in the Singularity is Near, foresee an AI utopia in which human and machine intelligence combine.
那么AI的未来会如何？乐观主义者，比如撰写《奇异点已近》一文的RaymondKurzweil，预见到了一个人机和谐的人工智能乌托邦。
By 2045, Kurzweil says, we will have expanded the capacity for intelligence of our civilization - comprised by that stage of both software and people - one billion fold.
到了2045年，库兹韦尔说，我们文明的智能—包括那个阶段的软件和人在内，其能力将会被扩充十亿倍。
By 2045, Kurzweil says, we will have expanded the capacity for intelligence of our civilization - comprised by that stage of both software and people - one billion fold.
到了2045年，库兹韦尔说，我们文明的智能—包括那个阶段的软件和人在内，其能力将会被扩充十亿倍。
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