| Speaking recently at the Georgia Technology Summit (GTS), Ray Kurzweil offered some new insights on the future since he took on his new role as Google's Director of Engineering. |
Kurzweil is a genius inventor. His contributions to machine learning (including optical character recognition and speech synthesis) have literally changed the world–and helped make some of Google’s own computational feats possible.
Kurzweil's work at Google intends to further develop the ideas he put forward in his book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
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As a futurist, Kuzweil’s long track record as a futurist is full of incredibly accurate predictions. Kurzweil predicted the demise of the Soviet Union precipitated by electronic communications, the defeat of the best chess player (Kasparov) by a machine (IBM’s Deep Blue) and the rise of the Internet. Kurzweil, basess many of his predictions, including the Singularity derive from his “law of accelerating returns” as reflected in Moore’s Law.
According to Kurzweil's own analysis, he claims that about 80% of his predictions were proved correct or “essentially correct.” Admitedly, Kurzweil may exaggerate his futursit accuracy a bit. However, that doesn’t change how amazingly accurate his predictions have been.
SOURCE Technology Association of Georgia
. As a futurist, Kuzweil’s long track record as a futurist is full of incredibly accurate predictions. Kurzweil predicted the demise of the Soviet Union precipitated by electronic communications, the defeat of the best chess player (Kasparov) by a machine (IBM’s Deep Blue) and the rise of the Internet. Kurzweil, basess many of his predictions, including the Singularity derive from his “law of accelerating returns” as reflected in Moore’s Law.
According to Kurzweil's own analysis, he claims that about 80% of his predictions were proved correct or “essentially correct.” Admitedly, Kurzweil may exaggerate his futursit accuracy a bit. However, that doesn’t change how amazingly accurate his predictions have been.
SOURCE Technology Association of Georgia
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