Ray Kurzweil at Exponential Finance 2014

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At the Exponential Finance conference earlier this summer Ray Kurzweil gave a teleprescence interview with CNBC's Bob Pisani where he discussed his familiar themes based around the power of exponential technology.

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions.  At the Exponential Finance conference earlier this summer he gave a teleprescence interview with CNBC's Bob Pisani (video above).

CNBC and Singularity University partnered to create Exponential Finance, a two-day conference that addresses upcoming, game-changing technologies and their imminent implications for the financial world.

The event examined how technologies—such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics and synthetic biology—are disrupting business.

"This is ultimately going to transform every industry - health and medicine is now an information technology.  We're reprogramming the outdated software in our bodies that that's expanding exponentially and will ultimately transform our health and longevity."

No stranger to 33rd Square, Kurzweil has been called the ultimate thinking machine by Forbes magazine and was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. Magazine, which described him as the rightful heir to Thomas Edison.

During his talk, he once again covered familiar themes, based on the Law of Accelerating Returns. He states that he (along with Peter Diamandis) founded Singularity University based around an appreciation of the powers of exponential growth.  "Information technology is not just things packaged like this," he says holding up a smartphone. "This is ultimately going to transform every industry - health and medicine is now an information technology.  We're reprogramming the outdated software in our bodies that that's expanding exponentially and will ultimately transform our health and longevity."

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Kurzweil 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.

Among Kurzweil’s many honors, he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty honorary Doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents.Ray has written five national best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. He is now the Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding.


SOURCE  Exponential Finance

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