I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. Ray Kurzweil authorentrepreneurinventor Change image and share on social
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous. Ray Kurzweil artificialdangerousemotional Change image and share on social
New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus. Ray Kurzweil answerbiologicalbioterrorist Change image and share on social
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach. Ray Kurzweil conflictcreateexpand share on social
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. Ray Kurzweil artificialcomputerdocument Change image and share on social
Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era. Ray Kurzweil biologybodycell share on social
The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions. Ray Kurzweil bluebraincase share on social
People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight. Ray Kurzweil 19thawashcentury Change image and share on social
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold. Ray Kurzweil artificialbillionbiological share on social
If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning. Ray Kurzweil blogcomputercreate Change image and share on social
