Ray Kurzweil

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gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Google
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
gptkbp:awards gptkb:The_Edison_Achievement_Award
gptkb:National_Medal_of_Technology
Inventor of the Year
gptkbp:birthDate 1948-02-12
gptkbp:birthPlace New_York_City,_New_York,_USA
gptkbp:children gptkb:Amy_Kurzweil
gptkb:Evan_Kurzweil
gptkbp:contribution Pattern recognition
Optical character recognition
Text-to-speech synthesis
Music synthesizers
gptkbp:famousQuote "The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed."
"I think we will be able to create a human-level AI by 2029."
"The singularity is near."
"We are the creators of our own destiny."
"Our technology is not an extension of ourselves; it is a part of ourselves."
gptkbp:field Computer Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Music Technology
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Ray Kurzweil
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:John_McCarthy
gptkb:Alan_Turing
gptkb:Marvin_Minsky
gptkbp:knownFor Artificial Intelligence
Futurism
Transhumanism
gptkbp:notableWorks How to Create a Mind
The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Singularity Is Near
gptkbp:occupation Author
Entrepreneur
Inventor
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Sonya_Kurzweil
gptkbp:website www.kurzweilai.net