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With a 35-year track record of accurate predictions about AI and science, Ray Kurzweil has radically advanced the fields of speech, text and audio technology. His impact as a philosopher and author is no less significant, with five bestselling books and the forthcoming The Singularity Is Nearer, which explores how technology will transform humanity in the decades to come. He is a principal researcher and AI visionary at Google, looking at the long-term implications of technology and society.

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Live from TED2018

Announced at TED2018: Google’s new TalkToBooks search

April 13, 2018

Here onstage at TED2018, futurist Ray Kurzweil has just formally announced a new way to query the text inside books using something called semantic search — which is a search on ideas and concepts, rather than specific words. Called TalkToBooks, the beta-stage product uses an experimental AI to query a database of 120,000 books in […]

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The hierarchy in your brain: Ray Kurzweil at TED2014

March 20, 2014

Ray Kurzweil returns to the TED stage to explain his new (kind of old) theory of the mind. He first wrote his theory as a paper 50 years ago, but today there’s a plethora of new evidence to support it. First, a refresher on the story of the neocortex, which means “new rind.” Two hundred […]

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