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May 2, 2024 · Ray Kurzweil, American computer scientist and futurist who pioneered pattern-recognition technology and proselytized the inevitability of humanity’s merger with the technology it created, a concept widely known as ‘the singularity.’
On May 13, 2006, Kurzweil was the first speaker at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. [57] In May 2013, Kurzweil was the keynote speaker at the 2013 proceeding of the Research, Innovation, Start-up and Employment (RISE) international conference in Seoul .
In The Singularity is Near, Kurzweil defines the ‘Singularity’ as “a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.”
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He has written five best-selling books including The Singularity Is Near and How To Create A Mind, both New York Times bestsellers, and Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google. LEARN MORE.
Jan 3, 2020 · Raymond Kurzweil was one of the first to arrange the major evolutionary shifts of a very significant part of the Big History along the hyperbolic curve that can be described by an equation with a mathematical singularity. For example, at page 18 of his bestseller The Singularity is Near (2006) he reproduces the following figure (see Fig. 1) 1:
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May 31, 2011 · Posted on May 31, 2011 in All years. Published: New York, 2005. Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil (MIT class of 1970) defines the Singularity as “a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.”
$35.00. Jun 25, 2024 | ISBN 9780399562761. Preorder from: Ebook. +. Audio. +. About The Singularity Is Nearer. The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come.
