Computer scientist, author and futurist
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Ray Kurzweil is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor whose work includes optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis and speech recognition. He has written books on artificial intelligence, transhumanism and the technological singularity.
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On the record in The Guardian / Observer (Kurzweil interview) · published 29 Jun 2024
“I have stayed consistent. So 2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI) – which is a little bit different.”