Tag: Brain-Computer Interface
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Kurzweil predicted students would attend class via full-immersion VR in the early 2010s. It happened via Zoom in 2020. Twelve predictions, graded.
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FlyWire mapped 140,000 neurons in an adult fruit fly. MICrONS mapped 523 million synapses in a cubic millimeter of mouse cortex. Neither matches the story Kurzweil told in 2005 about archiving human minds — but the paths we took to get here tell their own.
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Kurzweil’s prediction that trained skills could move between machines in seconds arrived early, decoupled from biology. The nanobots never came.
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Ray Kurzweil’s brain-AI merger is happening. Cortical speech BCIs hit 62 words per minute, Ray-Ban Meta glasses put live translation on the lens, and autonomous munitions are already deployed — but the nanobots he said would deliver all of it never showed up.
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Genetic algorithms were supposed to deliver human-level AI by 2025. Transformers did — on time, and nothing like the path Kurzweil described.
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Ten ALS patients walk around with a bloodstream-delivered brain reader. It just isn’t a nanobot.
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Twelve Kurzweil predictions about brain prosthetics, tested against the patents granted last quarter and the papers in NEJM from last October.