In the first of a two-part conversation, host Steve Curwood sits down with famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil to look at some of his inventions and discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Kurzweil says that “the singularity” is near – a time when we will merge with our technologies, and greatly expand our human potential.
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