The last 6 decades of AI — and what comes next | Ray Kurzweil

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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How will AI improve our lives in the years to come? From its inception six decades ago to its recent exponential growth, futurist Ray Kurzweil highlights AI’s transformative impact on various fields and explains his prediction for the singularity: the point at which human intelligence merges with machine intelligence.

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0:19.0	relate to one another, there's no shortage of talk about AI.
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0:31.1	Let's launch in with Ray Kurzwell. He has spent his whole life thinking about and
0:35.6	talking about this groundbreaking technology. Today the AI Visionary takes us on a
0:40.3	journey through the sweep of AI history and shares what he believes is its most
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