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The kind of intelligence Kurzweil is talking about, which is called strong AI or artificial general intelligence, doesn't exist yet.

Kurzweil blames the prevailing notion of a world going to hell in a hand basket on increased visibility.

For Kurzweil, it's not so much about staying healthy as long as possible; it's about staying alive until the Singularity.

Mr Kurzweil's journey as a futurist began when he became intrigued by rapid advances in computing capacity.

But Kurzweil finds that life extension produces even more resistance in his audiences than his exponential growth curves.

Ray Kurzweil, a respected computer scientist, serial inventor and futurist, predicted that some 55m robots would be in circulation by 2010.

Kurzweil only shook his head and asked "how can you look at these lines and believe that? "

As it turned out, Kurzweil's numbers looked a lot like Moore's. They doubled every couple of years.

Dr Kurzweil is considered one of the most radical figures in the field of technological prediction.

The subsequent decade has seen a rise in the number of Kurzweil's critics and the volume of their complaints.

But if I had to take sides in the 2029 wager, I'd put my money on Dr. Kurzweil.

If you can swallow that idea, and Kurzweil and a lot of other very smart people can, then all bets are off.

The Kurzweil version of technological utopia has captured imaginations in Silicon Valley.

Readers can judge for themselves, as both Kurzweil and Grossman reveal the personal histories that led them to develop this plan.

It also eliminates the Windows-only Blio, founded by tech visionary Ray Kurzweil.

I also started Kurzweil Applied Intelligence in 1982 with the goal of creating a voice-activated word processor.

And then what we see in the singularity , that prophesized by Kurzweil and others -- his idea that technology is accelerating evolution .

The institution gains its name from a controversial 2005 book by Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near.

Optimists, such as Raymond Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near, foresee an AI utopia in which human and machine intelligence combine.

Kurzweil is 60, takes 250 vitamins and other supplements a day, and believes some of them can turn back ageing.

"I think relinquishment is a bad idea for three reasons, " says Kurzweil.

Under the hood of the PC3X is simply the most powerful synthesis engine ever created by Kurzweil.

That was Kurzweil's real secret, and back in 1965 nobody guessed it. Maybe not even him, not yet.

By 2029, Dr. Kurzweil wagers, a computer will pass the Turing Test by carrying on a conversation that is indistinguishable from a human's.

According to Kurzweil's predictions, we will see computer systems as powerful as the human brain in 2020.

Kurzweil hopes to bring his dead father back to life.

This is, Kurzweil believes, our destiny as a species.

By that time Kurzweil was thinking about the Singularity too.

The institute holds an annual conference called the Singularity Summit. (Kurzweil co-founded that too. )