That task fell to Ray Kurzweil. A consummate brand builder, Kurzweil turned Vinge’s frown upside-down and recast the Singularity as a great big cosmic party, to great commercial success.

In a new blog post, Altman laid out his vision for a hugely prosperous future powered by superintelligent AI. We'll figure ...

Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true ...

Now 76, the inventor and futurist hopes to reach “the Singularity” and live indefinitely. His margin of error is shrinking. Ray Kurzweil’s sequel to his 2005 ...

And yet, we have recently built systems that are smarter than people in many ways, and are able to significantly amplify the ...

In 2005, futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil popularized the term “the singularity” to capture the idea that man and machine will merge as the next stage of evolution. This was the basis for Kurzweil’s ...

Computer scientist and famed transhumanist Ray Kurzweil is less openly scornful ... In “The Age of Spiritual Machines” (1999) and “The Singularity Is Near” (2005), he offered controversial ...

In 2005, Ray Kurzweil published The Singularity Is Near, in which he borrows the concept of the singularity from black holes—a point inside a black hole where the gravitational pull is so ...

While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents a view of the coming age that ...