Kurzweil is generally recognized as a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, due to his stances on life extension technologies, his efforts to forecast future advances in technology, and his interest in the concept of the technological singularity.

" The concept has also been popularized by futurists, such as Ray Kurzweil.

Raymond Kurzweil mentions the concept several times in his book The Singularity Is Near ( 2005 ), following a similar train of thought.

Time periods between key events in human history shrink exponentially in a chart by Kurzweil depicting his " Law of Accelerating Returns ", explained in the book.

Kurzweil asserts in his Law of Accelerating Returns that technology is progressing toward the Singularity at an exponential rate, relying almost entirely on empirical data.

In his 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines Kurzweil proposed " The Law of Accelerating Returns ", according to which the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems ( including but not limited to the growth of technologies ) tends to increase exponentially.

Kurzweil created the following graphs to illustrate his beliefs concerning and his justification for his Law of Accelerating Returns.

* Kurzweil, Ray ( 2001, Essay: The Law of Accelerating Returns

* The Law of Accelerating Returns by Ray Kurzweil

In 1999, Kurzweil created a hedge fund called " FatKat " ( Financial Accelerating Transactions from Kurzweil Adaptive Technologies ), which began trading in 2006.

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of the 2005 book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, defines a Singularitarian as someone " who understands the Singularity and who has reflected on its implications for his or her own life ", and estimates the Singularity will occur around 2045.

Moravec talks in terms of MIPS, not " cps ", which is a non-standard term Kurzweil introduced .</ ref > He uses this figure to predict the necessary hardware will be available sometime between 2015 and 2025, if the current exponential growth in computer power continues.

Kurzweil predicts that soon after the " Singularity ", the worldwide supercomputer will deploy other humanoid androids and robots in the meat world.

This prediction has attracted debate and criticism from the AI research community, and some of its more notable members, such as Kevin Warwick, Bill Joy, Ken MacLeod, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, and Roger Penrose, have voiced their opinions on whether or not this future is likely.

Hyundai acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 has appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems.

Kurzweil has received many awards and honors, including:

* Kurzweil has received eighteen honorary doctorates.

Kurzweil has forecast a number of specific technological advances with specific dates in his books, stating that before 2050 medical advances will allow people to radically extend their lifespans while preserving quality of life through the use of nanobots,

Futurist Ray Kurzweil has speculated that by the end of the 21st century it may be possible by using femtotechnology to create new chemical elements composed of exotic baryons that would eventually constitute a new periodic table of elements in which the elements would have completely different properties than the regular chemical elements.

It has been speculated by futurologist Ray Kurzweil the end of the 21st century it may be possible by using femtotechnology to create new chemical elements composed of exotic baryons that would eventually constitute a new periodic table of elements in which the elements would have completely different properties than the regular chemical elements.

After mastering the methods of technology and biology, Kurzweil predicts that human / machine civilization will expand its frontiers into the universe, gradually ( or perhaps explosively ) consuming the contents of the cosmos until the universe reaches a ' saturated ' state where all inanimate matter has been converted to substrates for computation and intelligence, and a truly universal super-intelligence takes form.

* People spend most of their time in full-immersion virtual reality ( Kurzweil has cited The Matrix as a good example of what the advanced virtual worlds will be like, without the dystopian twist ).

Kurzweil has also directed his own adaptation, called The Singularity is Near, which mixes a documentary with a science-fiction story involving his robotic avatar Ramona's transformation into an artificial general intelligence.

As futurist and computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil has noted, " There are physical limits to computation, but they're not very limiting.

Once the matter of the solar system has been mostly converted to computer substrate, forming a Matrioshka brain, according to Kurzweil, by about the beginning of the 22nd century, life will then expand outward into interstellar space in all directions, deploying miniature starships ( to save on expensive anti matter starship fuel ) that will be Von Neumann probes crewed by swarms of nanobots, to colonize the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

Hyundai acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 has appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems.

In Spring 2008, Kurzweil launched the PC3 Performance Controller, which has next generation VAST synthesis technology derived from the K2xxx series but vastly improved with new features, new algorithms, virtual analog synthesis, sequencer, powerful effects processor based on Kurzweil KSP8 unit, and overall better sounds than previous Kurzweil synths.

Currently, Young Chang has more than 2000 full-time workers, designing and building its upright and grand pianos, and also the electronic Kurzweil Music Systems.

Kurzweil has been awarded the highest possible scientific prize of the Czech Republic, the " Czech Mind " of the year 2006, as an acknowledgement of his life achievements.

Ray Kurzweil, a noted futurist, has written about this level of technology.

This idea has been popularised by Ray Kurzweil as strong AI ( taken to mean a machine as intelligent as a human being ).

Because the integrand is bounded and is not Lebesgue integrable, it is not even Henstock – Kurzweil integrable.

Raymond " Ray " Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948 ) is an American author, inventor and futurist.

Products include the Kurzweil 1000 text-to-speech converter software program, which enables a computer to read electronic and scanned text aloud to blind or visually impaired users, and the Kurzweil 3000 program, which is a multifaceted electronic learning system that helps with reading, writing, and study skills.

Like the Kurzweil Reading Machine of almost 30 years before, the K-NFB Reader is designed to aid blind people by reading written text aloud.

Kurzweil is married with two children.

The Age of Spiritual Machines is a book by futurist Ray Kurzweil about the future course of humanity, particularly relating to the development of artificial intelligence and its impact on human consciousness.

In his book The Singularity is Near, Kurzweil makes a detailed critique of Smalley's views on nanotechnology.

* For the Henstock – Kurzweil integral, improper integration is not necessary, and this is seen as a strength of the theory: it encompasses all Lebesgue integrable and improper Riemann integrable functions.

This Infinity Point is an early version of the " Singularity " later made popular by Ray Kurzweil.

In mathematics, the Henstock – Kurzweil integral ( also known as the ( narrow ) Denjoy integral ( pronounced ), Luzin integral or Perron integral, not to be confused with the more general wide Denjoy integral ) is one of a number of definitions of the integral of a function.

Due to these two important mathematicians, it is now commonly known as the Henstock – Kurzweil integral.

In the introduction to his book, Goertzel says that estimates of the time needed before a truly flexible AGI is built vary from 10 years to over a century, but the consensus in the AGI research community seems to be that the timeline discussed by Ray Kurzweil in " The Singularity is Near " ( i. e. between 2015 and 2045 ) is plausible.

Kurzweil looks at various estimates for the hardware required to equal the human brain and adopts a figure of 10 < sup > 16 </ sup > computations per second ( cps ).< ref > In " Mind Children " 10 < sup > 15 </ sup > cps is used.

The artificial neuron model assumed by Kurzweil and used in many current artificial neural network implementations is simple compared with biological neurons.