Former Google engineer predicts humans will achieve immortality within eight years

A former Google engineer has just predicted that humans will achieve immortality in eight years, something more than likely considering that 86% of his 147 predictions have been correct.

Ray Kurzweil visited the YouTube channel Adagio, in a discussion on the expansion of genetics, nanotechnology and robotics, which he believes will lead to age-reversing ‘nanobots’.

These tiny robots will repair damaged cells and tissues that deteriorate as the body ages, making people immune to certain diseases such as cancer.

Ray Kurzweil’s predictions

Kurzweil was hired by Google in 2012 to work on new projects related to machine learning and language processing, but he was making predictions about technological advances long before that.

One example is that in 1990 he predicted that the world’s best chess player would lose to a computer in 2000, and it happened in 1997 when the Deep Blue AI beat Gary Kasparov.

Contrary to the fears of some, he believes that implanting computers in our brains will improve us.

“We’re going to have more neocortex, we’re going to be more fun, we’re going to be better at music, we’re going to be sexier,” he explained.

“We’re really going to exemplify all the things we value in humans to a greater extent.

“We’re going to be able to meet the physical needs of all humans.

“We’re going to expand our minds and exemplify these artistic qualities that we value.”

According to him, by the second decade of the 21st century, it will be possible to find organs grown in laboratories.

He claims that these advances will make the human being reach immortality, something that he has placed in 2031.

Perhaps for many that is too soon, but the advance of technology is such that it could be something perfectly credible.