American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil has long argued that the singularity would likely occur around the ...

In 2005, futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil popularized the term “the singularity” to capture the idea that man and machine will merge as the next stage of evolution. This was the basis for Kurzweil’s ...

In “The Singularity Is Nearer,” the futurist Ray Kurzweil reckons with a world dominated by artificial intelligence (good) and his own mortality (bad).

In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity--assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and ...

Kurzweil -- who is better known for his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near-- has worked extensively in areas such as optical character recognition, speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis ...

Ray Kurzweil may be the best-known prophet of this order, but he was not the first. The true father of Singularitarianism is a sci-fi author and retired mathematics professor from Wisconsin named ...

Ray Kurzweil is (still, somehow) excited about humans merging with machines In ‘The Singularity Is Nearer,’ the tech guru says we’re getting closer to transcending our biology June 26, 2024 ...

Mr. Kurzweil, a renowned inventor and futurist who built a career on predictions that defy conventional wisdom, made the same claim in his 2005 book, “The Singularity Is Near.” ...

Now in his new book published last month, The Singularity is Nearer (a play on his 2005 book of the same name minus an “er”), ...