My Exponential Life
On Love and Inventing the Future
$59.50
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2027
Summary
Visionary and futurist Ray Kurzweil shares his unique journey, reflects on his career, and looks ahead to the way artificial intelligence will shape our future.
Nearly thirty years ago, Ray Kurzweil made the controversial prediction that AI would reach human-level intelligence by 2029. Almost everyone disagreed—until now.
A teenage prodigy whose inventiveness earned him TV appearances and a meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson, Kurzweil went on to build the first AI to com…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798902680994 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Ray Kurzweil |
| Publisher: | BenBella Books |
| Imprint: | BenBella Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2027 |
| Weight: | 481g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil is a world-class inventor, thinker, and futurist with a 36-year track record of accurate predictions. A leader in artificial intelligence for 63 years, he was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software.
Ray has won a Grammy, the National Medal of Technology, a place in the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and 21 honorary doctorates. He has written six bestselling books including The Singularity Is Near, How to Create a Mind, and The Singularity Is Nearer, which debuted at #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
He served as a director of engineering and later principal researcher and AI visionary at Google for 13 years where he developed an AI model that conversed in natural language with 100,000 books, a landmark precursor to today’s large language models.
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