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

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

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 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 ...

The adages that anchor that book—“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”—appeared just as a 14-year old prodigy named Ray Kurzweil was teaching himself to ...

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.” ...

Ray Kurzweil writes that AI is now exceeding the ... forged by the god Hephaestus to protect the island of Crete — says Ray Kurzweil in his timely and mind-bending new book, “The Singularity ...

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 ...

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”), ...