«The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur when we merge our brain with the cloud. We’re going to be a combination of our natural intelligence and our cybernetic intelligence and it’s all going to be rolled into one. Making it possible will be brain-computer interfaces which ultimately will be nanobots – robots the size of molecules – that will go noninvasively into our brains through the capillaries.»
«Twenty years from now, we'll have nanobots, because another exponential trend is the shrinking of technology. They'll go into our brain through the capillaries and basically connect our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud providing an extension of our neocortex.»
«Think of it like having your phone, but in your brain.»
«It is not going to be us versus AI: AI is going inside ourselves.»
«In the 2030s, if you need some extra neocortex, you'll be able to connect to that in the cloud directly from your brain.»
«And our thinking, then, will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking, but the non-biological portion is subject to my law of accelerating returns. It will grow exponentially.»
«Yet the most important role of nanotech in our bodies will be augmenting the brain—which will eventually become more than 99.9 percent nonbiological.»
«The other is connecting the brain to computers, which will both provide the ability to control machines directly with our thoughts and allow us to integrate digital layers of neocortex in the cloud.»
«We will have intelligent computerized devices the size of blood cells, and we’ll put them in our blood stream. They’ll go inside our brain and provide gateways to the cloud directly from our brain.»
«In the 2030s, nanobots will travel into the brain noninvasively (no surgery required) and connect our neurons directly to the cloud.»
«We’re not going to be plugged in a la the Matrix. It’s going to be WiFi.»
«One answer is that we have brain extenders already, even though the vast majority are not physically connected.»
«In my view, the long-term goal is medical nanorobots. These will be made from diamondoid parts with onboard sensors, manipulators, computers, communicators, and possibly power supplies.»
«The 2030s will usher in the third phase of life extension, which will be to use nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of our biological organs altogether.»
«I’m also intending to create a replicant of myself, which is an option I think we’ll all have in the late 2020s.»
«We will think millions of times faster, but most importantly, we will not be dependent on the survival of any of our bodies for our selves to survive.»
«So we can gradually transform into a nonbiological intelligence that will be backed up.»
«So 2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI) – which is a little bit different.»
«We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045 and it is going to deepen our awareness and consciousness.»