This is the point in time when artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence resulting in rapid technological growth that will fundamentally change civilization. The Singularity is a very important idea of Dr. When he was a student at MIT, he worked with Ray to develop text to speech interface for that synthesizer so that Stevie Wonder and other non-sighted musicians could interact with the extensive visual navigation interface. I’ll just mention one connection to Chip, Ben Rice, a faculty member. Larry Page brought Kurzweil into Google as a principal researcher and AI visionary. His best selling books include the New York Times bestsellers The Singularity is Near and How to Create a Mind.

He was awarded the national medal of technology.

He won a Grammy for creating a music synthesizer used by Stevie Wonder that was capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments. Invented many technologies familiar to us today, including flatbed scanning, optical character recognition and text to speech synthesis. He creates and predicts using tools and ideas from the field of pattern recognition. Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers and futurists. To learn more, you can visit The landmark ideas series is an event series featuring thought leaders across healthcare, informatics, IT, big science, innovation and more.ĭr. The program was founded in 94, we’re a multidisciplinary applied research and education program. I direct the computational health informatics program at Boston Children’s Hospital. Today, we’ll be hearing about rewriting biology with artificial intelligence for Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist.

The singularity is near