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By The Time Of The Singularity, There Won't Be A Distinction Between Humans And Technology. This Is Not Because Humans Will Have Become What We Think Of As Machines Today, But Rather Machines Will Have Progressed To Be Like Humans And Beyond. Technology Will Be The Metaphorical Opposable Thumb That Enables Our Next Step In Evolution.

I'm Working On Artificial Intelligence. Actually, Natural Language Understanding, Which Is To Get Computers To Understand The Meaning Of Documents.

Take Death For Example. A Great Deal Of Our Effort Goes Into Avoiding It. We Make Extraordinary Efforts To Delay It, And Often Consider Its Intrusion A Tragic Event. Yet We'd Find It Hard To Live Without It. Death Gives Meaning To Our Lives. It Gives Importance And Value To Time. Time Would Become Meaningless If There Were Too Much Of It.

In 1999, I Said That In About A Decade We Would See Technologies Such As Self-driving Cars And Mobile Phones That Could Answer Your Questions, And People Criticized These Predictions As Unrealistic.

Our Technology, Our Machines, Is Part Of Our Humanity. We Created Them To Extend Ourselves, And That Is What Is Unique About Human Beings.