Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, is a well-known futurist with a high-hitting track record for accurate predictions. Of his 147 predictions since the 1990s, Kurzweil claims an 86 ...

Known as the Singularity, the event is oft discussed by scientists, futurists, technology stalwarts and others as a time when artificial intelligence will cause machines to become smarter than human ...

Ray Kurzweil was one of the most remarkable and prolific inventors of the late 20th century. Now Kurzweil, who can claim credit for developing the first text-to-speech synthesizer and the first CCD ...

Amidst all the talk about how artificial intelligence (AI) is threatening society with great harm—beginning with taking over human-held jobs and then, eventually, becoming more intelligent and taking ...

Enough Ray Kurzweil for awhile, at least on this page. For those who crave more, you might check out his webpage. Paul Solman: Because I cherish my work and consider it a genuine privilege — both at ...

00:07 Ray Kurzweil: You’re walking along, and on the one hand there’s this great vistas ahead of you that you hope to climb, but there’s also the ravine right next to you that you hope you won’t fall ...

Today computer science pioneer Ray Kurzweil is known for promoting the transhumanist movement, which rallies around the idea of the "technological singularity": when artificial intelligence becomes ...

Ray Kurzweil on stage at Tune’s Postback conference Thursday afternoon. Follow-up: Ray Kurzweil makes his case: This is ‘by far the best time in human history’ — despite what you might read on ...

Inventor Ray Kurzweil made his name as a pioneer in technology that helped machines understand human language, both written and spoken. These days he is probably best known as a prophet of The ...