My Exponential Life: On Love and Inventing the Future

Visionary and futurist Ray Kurzweil shares his unique journey, reflects on his career, and looks ahead to the way artificial intelligence will shape our future.

Nearly thirty years ago, Ray Kurzweil made the controversial prediction that AI would reach human-level intelligence by 2029. Almost everyone disagreed—until now.

A teenage prodigy whose inventiveness earned him TV appearances and a meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson, Kurzweil went on to build the first AI to compose music, i...