Source: Tengri News — May 23, 2011
Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov posted in tweeted that he watched Barry Ptolemy’s Transcendent Man. “I saw the film, The Transcendent Man. It changed my vision of the future,” the Prime Minister posted.
Transcendent Man is a documentary about innovations and revolutionary ideas based on Ray Kurzweil’s bestseller called The Singularity is Near. The movie is about the life, career and ideas of Kurzweil, who is well-known in… read more
Source: New Scientist — May 6, 2009 | Liz Else
For inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, being human with limited intelligence and doomed biology was never good enough. So he came up with an idea called the Singularity — a time when humans merge with machines, become smart and live forever. From MIT to the White House, people either hate the idea or can’t wait for it to happen. So, asks Liz Else, will any of us live long enough to… read more
Source: New Books in Brief — November 27, 2012
When IBM’s Deep Blue defeated humanity’s greatest chess player Gary Kasparov in 1997 it marked a major turning point in the progress of artificial intelligence (AI). A still more impressive turning point in AI was achieved in 2011 when another creation of IBM named Watson defeated Jeopardy! phenoms Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter at their own game.
As time marches on and technology advances we can easily envision… read more
Source: USA Today — February 9, 2011 | Sam Meddis
When the IBM computer called “Watson” faces off against past “Jeopardy” champs on Monday (February 14,2011), no one will be watching more intently than inventor Ray Kurzweil, a leading authority on the future of artificial intelligence. Based on his calculations of the accelerating rate of growth of computing power, Kurzweil in the 1980s predicted that a computer would defeat a… read more
Source: Wired — May 12, 2001 | Mark K. Anderson
Artificial Intelligence pioneer Ray Kurzweil has sponsored the premiere of the first excursion into computational art in history.… read more
ABC News talks to Ray Kurzweil about how the technology that he has predicted in the books that he has published will dramatically change the world’s views on life and death.
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Source: Ubiquity — January 11, 2006 | John Gehl
UBIQUITY: How is the new book doing?
KURZWEIL: Very well. It’s in its fourth printing, and has been number one both in science and in philosophy on Amazon.
UBIQUITY: It’s an amazing, magisterial piece of work.
KURZWEIL: Thanks, I appreciate that.
UBIQUITY: Why don’t you talk a little bit about the notion of “singularity”? Set the premise for us.
KURZWEIL: Sure. It’s actually a complicated premise, but there… read more
Source: Big Think — November 9, 2010 | Michio Kaku
Back in July, a team at Tokyo University was one of the first groups to successfully create a system of touchable holograms. If you had a hologram of a small red ball, for example, you could essentially interact with it.
The ball would know when it was near your hand and would appear to bounce off of it. When this technology first made news, it was compared… read more
Source: NPR Talk of the Nation — September 14, 2011 | Neal Conan
MIKE (telephone caller): Hi. Yeah. Vice President, I wonder, have you met Ray Kurzweil before?
AL GORE: Yes, I know Ray.
MIKE: OK.
GORE: And I had a day-long session with him, and I had a very interesting extended dialogue with him about climate, by the way. I respect him.
MIKE: Well, how do you respond to his criticism of global warming? I,… read more
Source: The Telepraph — November 28, 2012 | Roger Highfield
Ray Kurzweil foresees a disease-free world where no one ages and artificial brains make machines human-like — and he is not one to get things wrong. He is a pioneer, exploring a hinterland that lies just beyond the horizon of current possibilities; a twilight zone between science fact and fiction, between predictions rooted in existing technology and the wildest lunatic speculation.
Ray Kurzweil is an American… read more