{"id":153486,"date":"2022-12-23T21:24:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T03:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/chip-landmark-ideas-ray-kurzweil"},"modified":"2022-12-23T21:24:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T03:24:46","slug":"chip-landmark-ideas-ray-kurzweil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/chip-landmark-ideas-ray-kurzweil","title":{"rendered":"CHIP Landmark Ideas: Ray Kurzweil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KklEmSBlUcM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rewriting Biology with Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Kurzweil.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Kurzweil is one of the world\u2019s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called \u201cthe restless genius\u201d by The Wall Street Journal and \u201cthe ultimate thinking machine\u201d by Forbesmagazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the \u201crightful heir to Thomas Edison.\u201d PBS selected him as one of the \u201csixteen revolutionaries who made America.\u201d Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty-one honorary Doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Ray has written five national best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Near (2005) and How To Create A Mind (2012). He is Co-Founder of Singularity Group and a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google, looking at the long-term implications of technology and society.<\/p>\n<p>The Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) <\/p>\n<p>CHIP, founded in 1994, is a multidisciplinary applied research and education program at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital. For more information, please visit our website <a href='http:\/\/www.chip.org.' rel='nofollow'>www.chip.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CHIP Landmark Ideas Series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/chip-landmark-ideas-ray-kurzweil\">Continue reading \u201cCHIP Landmark Ideas: Ray Kurzweil\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewriting Biology with Artificial Intelligence. Ray Kurzweil. Ray Kurzweil is one of the world\u2019s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called \u201cthe restless genius\u201d by The Wall Street Journal and \u201cthe ultimate thinking machine\u201d by Forbesmagazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1495,42,2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-health","category-media-arts","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}