American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948 in Queens, New York City) is an American author, entrepreneur, inventor, and futurist.
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| Born | Raymond Kurzweil February 12, 1948 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.) |
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Sonya Rosenwald (m. 1975) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Website | Official website  |
Kurzweil wrote seven books (five of them were national bestsellers[2][3]) about topics like health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, immortality, the technological singularity, and futurism. He speaks to people and gives speeches at conferences like DEMO, SXSW, and TED. He also maintains the news website KurzweilAI.net. It has more than three million readers per year.[4] He has a sibling, a son (Ethan Kurzweil), and a daughter (Amy Kurzweil).
Kurzweil works at Google since 2012.[5] He is a "director of engineering".[5]
Kurzweil made 147 predictions about the future since the 1990s.[5] He has a prediction accuracy rate of 86%.[5]
Predictions from 1990: A computer will defeat a world chess champion by 1998.[3] This prediction was wrong because it already happened in 1997.[3][6] Personal Computers (PCs) will can answer queries by accessing information wirelessly via the Internet by 2010.[3] That became true.[3] Exoskeletal limbs will let the disabled walk by the early 2000s.[3] That became true.[3]
Predictions from 1999: People will can talk to their computer to give them commands by 2009.[3] That became true.[3] Computer displays will be built into eyeglasses for augmented reality by 2009.[3] That became true.[3]
Predictions from 2005: Virtual solutions will be able to do real-time language translation into text that will appear as subtitles to a user wearing the glasses in the 2010s.[3] That became true.[3]
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