Ray Kurzweil
Author. Principal Researcher and AI Visionary, Google
“Ray Kurzweil’s eerily prescient predictions about AI are underpinned by a simple line chart. The chart, tracking the amount of computing power you could buy for a dollar over time, has grown exponentially for the past 85 years. Kurzweil initially used it to prioritize his inventions as a young programmer, focusing on a revolutionary print-to-speech machine for the blind in the 1970s, then early speech recognition software in the ’80s. Eventually, he started writing about what he believed advances in computing power would bring and his predicting ‘took on a life of its own.'”