A conversation with Newton-based inventor, author, and computer scientist, who believes technology will help humans extend their lives—a lot sooner than you might think.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept borrowed ...

What is it when intelligence ceases to be something that a person is born with and is something that a person plugs? The singularity has been used since decades as a form of cultural stress-test: a ...

That uncertainty surfaced in real life in 2022, when Google engineer Blake Lemoine became convinced that the company’s LaMDA ...

Part 1 of TED Radio Hour's "Prophets of Technology: The OG influencers" Futurist Ray Kurzweil was early to forecast AI would turbocharge human potential. At 77, he shares lessons from 60 years of ...

Futurist and tech inventor Ray Kurzweil is the co-founder of Beyond Imagination. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League Ray Kurzweil, a renowned inventor and futurist, has long ...

The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in ...

As AI infiltrates every aspect of our lives, who are some of the people behind this huge inflection point? In this special three-part series,... Could AI extend your life indefinitely? Futurist Ray ...

This week on CyberFrequencies, futurist Ray Kurzweil who says man-and-machine will merge and our minds will live forever... on computer servers. There's a new documentary about him on the festival ...

South By Southwest Interactive is a bubble of optimism; a haven of ingenuity that seems liberated from all the constraints, or cynicism, of daily life. There are conceptual talks here that forgo all ...