ClaimsRay Kurzweil

“AI simulations have the potential to test all of the trillions of possibilities with tens of thousands of (simulated) patients for a (simulated) period of years, and do all of this in a matter of hours or days.”

Ray Kurzweil, columnist May 2020 AI-powered bio-tech can help deploy a vaccine in record time (Kurzweil Library / Wired) archived copy

Prediction Science and research methods

AI simulations have the potential to test all trillions of drug possibilities with tens of thousands of simulated patients over simulated years, in hours or days.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Claim about potential with no horizon, and it has not clearly happened.

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Ray Kurzweil, “AI simulations have the potential to test all trillions of drug possibilities with tens of thousands of simulated patients over simulated years, in hours or days.” (said May 2020). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_a1c377b60eba, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a1c377b60eba

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More prediction claims by Ray Kurzweil

  1. Mostly false Prediction May 2020
    “This is where combining AI with biotechnology is headed, and within several years all vaccine and medication development could be done this way.”

    Within several years all vaccine and medication development could be done by combining AI with biotechnology.

  2. Resolved false Prediction 2001
    “With the revolutions in genomics, proteomics, rational drug design, therapeutic cloning of our own organs and tissues, and related developments in bio-information sciences, we will be adding more…”

    Within ten years of 2001, biotechnology advances will add more than a year of life expectancy every year.

  3. Mostly false Prediction 3 June 2015
    “We're going to gradually merge and enhance ourselves.”

    Kurzweil predicted that humans will gradually merge with technology and enhance themselves.

  4. Resolved true Prediction 12 December 2002
    “Ten or 15 years from now we’ll go to the third dimension.”

    Ten or 15 years after 2002, computing will move to three-dimensional circuits as integrated circuits run out of steam.

  5. Mostly false Prediction January 2001
    “Computers will be able to read on their own, understanding and modeling what they have read, by the second decade of the twenty-first century.”

    Computers will be able to read on their own, understanding and modeling what they read, by the second decade of the 21st century.

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