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Also, Ray Kurzweil is not known just for his imagination. Some of his research has enabled groundbreaking technologies. For example, he is one of the creators o
by dlevine 14y ago
Also, Ray Kurzweil is not known just for his imagination. Some of his research has enabled groundbreaking technologies. For example, he is one of the creators of speech recognition technology (Nuance, which spun out of Kurzweil's company, allegedly powers Siri). I had heard of Kurzweil long before I knew anything about the singularity.
- fchollet 14y agoIndeed. However, a number of researchers have had arguably more impact that he did on NN research (such as LeCun), and these people are completely unheard of outside of the NN community. I can't imagine Kurzweil becoming the media star that he is without his singularity books.