Kurzweil, 65, meanwhile has a new day job: last December, Larry Page appointed him Google's chief engineer, based in Mountain View. "I met Larry a few months ago to talk about my new book, How to ...

When Kurzweil speaks at conferences and summits around the world, he is often introduced as having worked in AI longer than anyone else living. To be precise, he has been active in the development ...

Ray Kurzweil, the AI futurist best known for predicting the rise of the singularity, is taking a major step toward turning science fiction into industrial reality. His humanoid robotics company ...

But I think look at predictions individually is really missing the importance of Kurzweil's central thesis of the future: change is accelerating. If the growth of intelligence is truly following an ...

Kurzweil’s singularity is the intersection of curves (a) and (c) in the distant future, reflecting the faster gains in machine intelligence than human expertise.

Ray Kurzweil, radical futurist and prophet of innovation, holds up a smartphone. "This device is a billion times more valuable per constant dollar than the computer I used as a student at MIT in ...

Ray Kurzweil was one of the most remarkable and prolific inventors of the late 20th century. ... Information technology's exponential curve will fuel advances in biology, ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil wants to live long enough to witness the singularity. How? Popping 200 pills a day, for starters.

Not Ray Kurzweil. A renowned computer scientist and inventor, Kurzweil, 65, decided decades ago that mortality wasn’t for him. He didn’t have to die, and he wasn’t going to, if he could help it.

Kurzweil says that at Google, he will be working on advanced implementations of AI–will have unlimited resources #GoogleScale #SingularityU — Vivek Wadhwa (@wadhwa) January 3, 2013 ...