Futurist Raymond Kurzweil has a new book coming ... There is currently no technology even approaching what Kurzweil is ...

One such metric, defined by Translated, a Rome-based translation company, is an AI’s ability to translate speech at the ...

Author, Google engineer and futurist Ray Kurzweil says he isn’t worried about future technology that could allow the reading of people’s thoughts and that current invasions of privacy can ...

The Singularity is coming. That's the belief of Raymond Kurzweil ... like humans do by the end of the 2020s The way Kurzweil sees it, technological progress will balloon in the 2020s.

Kurzweil is one of the poster boys of Singularity, defined by Wikipedia as the "moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence”.

An AI capable of translating speech as well as a human could very well change society, even if the true “technological singularity” remains ever elusive.