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.
Genetic algorithms were supposed to deliver human-level AI by 2025. Transformers did — on time, and nothing like the path Kurzweil described.
Ten ALS patients walk around with a bloodstream-delivered brain reader. It just isn’t a nanobot.
Twelve Kurzweil predictions about brain prosthetics, tested against the patents granted last quarter and the papers in NEJM from last October.