“The change is so small that every single day you don’t perceive it, but when you see progress … across 10 years, that is ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that some researchers now argue humanity could cross a historic threshold in ...

The famed futurist remains inhumanly optimistic about the world and his own fate—and thinks the singularity is minutes away. Kurzweil had suggested we meet at the public library in Newton, ...

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 ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil speaking in New Delhi in 2012 (Photo by Kaushik Roy/The India Today Group via Getty Images) In 2005, the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2045, machines would become ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Innovation futurist, keynote speaker and author, based in California. Futurist Ray Kurzweil likes to make predictions about ...

It's been called "the rapture of the nerds." For some computer experts, the Singularity is the moment when an artificial intelligence learns how to improve itself in an exponential "intelligence ...

Since homo sapiens first emerged, humanity has enjoyed an unbeaten 300,000–year run as the most intelligent creatures on the planet. However, thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), ...

Hundreds of the world’s brightest minds — engineers from Google and IBM, hedge funds quants, and Defense Department contractors building artificial intelligence — were gathered in rapt attention ...