Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is a TED speaker who has written 2 quality-verified books, each paired here with their TED talk.

Ray Kurzweil is a visionary inventor, futurist, and author who has been harnessing the power of technology to shape the future for over four decades. As one of the most influential voices in the field of artificial intelligence, Kurzweil has made groundbreaking contributions to the development of speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and music composition, and has been recognized with numerous accolades, including 20 honorary doctorates and induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. With a boundless enthusiasm for the potential of technology to improve human life, Kurzweil continues to inspire and provoke, sharing his singular vision of a future where humans and machines merge to create a new era of intelligence, creativity, and possibility.

• The Singularity Is Near
• How to Create a Mind