In 1976, Stevie Wonder caught a segment on NBC's "TODAY" show featuring a blind man like himself demonstrating a machine that Wonder knew he immediately needed to have.
The machine was able to read text on a page and speak the words out loud, and it had been made to work specifically for blind people
The device was the Kurzweil Reading Machine, named for its inventor, Ray Kurzweil.
So the blind singer contacted Kurzweil's company and went to its headquarters. After a quick demonstration, he became the company's first official customer.
So began a long friendship between the inventor and the musician. The two would eventually collaborate to produce a groundbreaking musical instrument that uses artificial intelligence to create sounds.
Indeed, some form of artificial intelligence has been at the foundation of just about every one of Kurzweil's inventions. Kurzweil, 68, has spent much of his career building technologies that can learn and think in the ways humans do.
One of the unique human capabilities is the ability to recognize patterns — this is still something humans do better than machines, and it is crucial to many of the tasks only humans can do. Building machines that learn patterns can, in Kurzweil's mind, create inventions that augment human intelligence and help us overcome the challenges such as disabilities. This conviction led him to invent the reading machine that would later captivate Wonder.
Science and technology luminaries such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have publicly warned of the challenges and threats humanity faces from artificial intelligence. But Kurzweil says artificial intelligence in some form or another is already all around us, and it has made us wealthier and more productive.
"WHAT IS EXCITING FOR AN INVENTOR IS NOT JUST AN ABSTRACT THEORY, BUT THAT LEAP FROM FORMULAS ON A BLACKBOARD TO ACTUALLY CHANGING PEOPLE'S LIVES."-Ray Kurzweil, on C-SPAN
"AI, artificial intelligence, machines doing tasks that used to require human intelligence, is deeply integrated into our infrastructure," he said in an interview with C-SPAN in 2006. "Intelligent algorithms fly and land airplanes, guide weapons systems, make billions of dollars of financial decisions," among many other examples.
Kurzweil said he believes that machines will achieve the full range of human intelligence by 2030, but "it won't be an alien invasion of intelligent machines that compete with us. I mean it really is amplifying our own civilization. And we are going to literally enhance our own intellectual capabilities by merging with this technology."
-- The machine was able to read text on a page and speak the words out loud, and it had been made to work specifically for blind people
The device was the Kurzweil Reading Machine, named for its inventor, Ray Kurzweil.
So the blind singer contacted Kurzweil's company and went to its headquarters. After a quick demonstration, he became the company's first official customer.
So began a long friendship between the inventor and the musician. The two would eventually collaborate to produce a groundbreaking musical instrument that uses artificial intelligence to create sounds.
Indeed, some form of artificial intelligence has been at the foundation of just about every one of Kurzweil's inventions. Kurzweil, 68, has spent much of his career building technologies that can learn and think in the ways humans do.
One of the unique human capabilities is the ability to recognize patterns — this is still something humans do better than machines, and it is crucial to many of the tasks only humans can do. Building machines that learn patterns can, in Kurzweil's mind, create inventions that augment human intelligence and help us overcome the challenges such as disabilities. This conviction led him to invent the reading machine that would later captivate Wonder.
Science and technology luminaries such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have publicly warned of the challenges and threats humanity faces from artificial intelligence. But Kurzweil says artificial intelligence in some form or another is already all around us, and it has made us wealthier and more productive.
"WHAT IS EXCITING FOR AN INVENTOR IS NOT JUST AN ABSTRACT THEORY, BUT THAT LEAP FROM FORMULAS ON A BLACKBOARD TO ACTUALLY CHANGING PEOPLE'S LIVES."-Ray Kurzweil, on C-SPAN
"AI, artificial intelligence, machines doing tasks that used to require human intelligence, is deeply integrated into our infrastructure," he said in an interview with C-SPAN in 2006. "Intelligent algorithms fly and land airplanes, guide weapons systems, make billions of dollars of financial decisions," among many other examples.
Kurzweil said he believes that machines will achieve the full range of human intelligence by 2030, but "it won't be an alien invasion of intelligent machines that compete with us. I mean it really is amplifying our own civilization. And we are going to literally enhance our own intellectual capabilities by merging with this technology."
[Source: CNBC]
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