Ray Kurzweil's eerily prescient predictions about AI are underpinned by a simple line chart. The chart, tracking the amount of computing power you could buy for a dollar over time, has grown ...

Kurzweil’s Singularity is somewhat hard to pin down by design, its name stolen from the spookiest frontiers of knowledge. In mathematics, it refers to when the model falls apart; in astrophysics, it ...

On Friday, futurist Ray Kurzweil spoke at the Exponential Finance Summit, a New York City technology conference put on by Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think tank. Kurzweil, an author and ...

Known as the Singularity, the event is oft discussed by scientists, futurists, technology stalwarts and others as a time when artificial intelligence will cause machines to become smarter than human ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil's goal is to not die at all. A far-fetched idea, and yet those who have followed Kurzweil's work over the decades know that many of his wild ideas and predictions come true.

We talk to the famed futurist about his new book, 'The Singularity is Nearer,' and why he's doubling down on his prediction that humans will merge with machines by 2045. The book contains dozens of ...

Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, is a well-known futurist with a high-hitting track record for accurate predictions. Of his 147 predictions since the 1990s, Kurzweil claims an 86 ...