ClaimsRay Kurzweil

“And I’ve asked these machines questions which no human could answer because we can’t actually hold all of everything that’s happened to humans in our mind.”

Ray Kurzweil, MWC 2025 Q&A March 2025 Ray Kurzweil: 2022-2025 Updates (transcripts) (LifeArchitect.ai) archived copy

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Kurzweil has asked AI language models questions that no human could answer, because humans cannot hold everything that has happened to humanity in mind.

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Ray Kurzweil, “Kurzweil has asked AI language models questions that no human could answer, because humans cannot hold everything that has happened to humanity in mind.” (said March 2025). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_841568c498cb, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_841568c498cb

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