Ray Kurzweil

AI visionary

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Why you should listen

With a 35-year track record of accurate predictions about AI and science, Ray Kurzweil has radically advanced the fields of speech, text and audio technology. His impact as a futurist and author is no less significant, with five bestselling books and the forthcoming The Singularity Is Nearer, which explores how technology will transform humanity in the decades to come. He is a principal researcher and AI visionary at Google, looking at the long-term implications of technology and society.

Ray Kurzweil’s TED Talks

Ray Kurzweil
The accelerating power of technology
22 minutes 42 seconds
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
Posted Nov 2006
Ray Kurzweil
A university for the coming singularity
8 minutes 28 seconds
Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity University, to study oncoming tech and guide it to benefit humanity.
Posted Jun 2009
Ray Kurzweil
Get ready for hybrid thinking
9 minutes 39 seconds
Two hundred million years ago, our mammal ancestors developed a new brain feature: the neocortex. This stamp-sized piece of tissue (wrapped around a brain the size of a walnut) is the key to what humanity has become. Now, futurist Ray Kurzweil suggests, we should get ready for the next big leap in brain power, as we tap into the computing power in the cloud.
Posted Jun 2014
Ray Kurzweil, Chris Anderson
Ray Kurzweil on what the future holds next
38 minutes 5 seconds
Join head of TED Chris Anderson for a very special conversation with legendary inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, recorded live onstage at TED2018. Listen in to hear what the man who makes a living from predicting the future arc of technology thinks is coming our way next -- including a specific prediction of when he thinks technology will finally gain human levels of language understanding. (Audio only)
Posted Dec 2018
Ray Kurzweil
The last 6 decades of AI — and what comes next
13 minutes 11 seconds
How will AI improve our lives in the years to come? From its inception six decades ago to its recent exponential growth, futurist Ray Kurzweil highlights AI's transformative impact on various fields and explains his prediction for the singularity: the point at which human intelligence merges with machine intelligence.
Posted Jun 2024

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Live from TED2024
Explorers: Notes on Session 8 of TED2024
April 18, 2024
From redefining the boundaries of artificial intelligence to unraveling the mysteries of the human genome, Session 8 of TED2024 inspired us to reimagine our relationship with technology and its impact on society. This session’s explorers offered profound insights into the intersection of technology and human experience — and envisioned a future where innovation fosters greater […]
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Live from TED2018
Announced at TED2018: Google’s new TalkToBooks search
April 13, 2018
Here onstage at TED2018, futurist Ray Kurzweil has just formally announced a new way to query the text inside books using something called semantic search — which is a search on ideas and concepts, rather than specific words. Called TalkToBooks, the beta-stage product uses an experimental AI to query a database of 120,000 books in […]
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Tech
Hey, cloud, here comes my boss. A little help?
June 2, 2014
Here’s what we humans are really going to do with the hybrid brains that Ray Kurzweil proposes we’ll have by 2030.
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Ray Kurzweil

Why you should listen

Ray Kurzweil’s TED Talks

More news and ideas from Ray Kurzweil

Explorers: Notes on Session 8 of TED2024

Announced at TED2018: Google’s new TalkToBooks search

Hey, cloud, here comes my boss. A little help?