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TED2024 brings together some of the most distinguished and accomplished experts in the field of AI, who will share their insights, experiences, and perspectives on the latest advances and ethical implications of AI technology.
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RAY Kurzweil
AI visionary
With a 35-year track record of accurate predictions about AI and science, Ray Kurzweil has radically advanced the fields of speech, text and audio technology.
His impact as a philosopher and author is no less significant, with five bestselling books and the forthcoming “The Singularity Is Nearer”, which explores how technology will transform humanity in the decades to come.
He is a principal researcher and AI visionary at Google, looking at the long-term implications of technology and society.
His impact as a philosopher and author is no less significant, with five bestselling books and the forthcoming “The Singularity Is Nearer”, which explores how technology will transform humanity in the decades to come.
He is a principal researcher and AI visionary at Google, looking at the long-term implications of technology and society.
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Rumman Chowdhury
CEO and cofounder at Humane Intelligence
Rumman Chowdhury helps to develop transparent AI systems that embed humanism in their core algorithms. In addition to her work at Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit focused on the safety and ethics of developing generative AI, Chowdhury is the head of the AI consulting firm Parity Consulting and a Responsible AI Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.
She has advised the UK House of Lords Parliamentary Group on AI and was named in TIME's "100 Most Influential People in AI" list in 2023.
She has advised the UK House of Lords Parliamentary Group on AI and was named in TIME's "100 Most Influential People in AI" list in 2023.
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Jason Rugolo
Founder and ceo at iyo
Jason Rugolo is a deeptech inventor and designer who cares about making the world a radically better place through high-impact technology products.
He’s the founder and CEO of iyo, a “secret moonshot startup” developing a natural language computing platform with a screenless user interface that aims to help people become superhuman.
Previously, he was a program director at ARPA-E and a GM at Google X.
He’s the founder and CEO of iyo, a “secret moonshot startup” developing a natural language computing platform with a screenless user interface that aims to help people become superhuman.
Previously, he was a program director at ARPA-E and a GM at Google X.
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Amy Kurzweil
The New Yorker cartoonist
Amy Kurzweil is a cartoonist for The New Yorker and the author of Artificial: A Love Story, a memoir of her father's quest to construct an AI chatbot modeled on her grandfather's writings. Kurzweil's cartoons and long-form comics explore the questions surrounding family, identity, technology and the future of memory.
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Catie Cuan
Robot choreographer
Catie Cuan is an artist, engineer and award-winning robot choreographer whose work explores the beauty, magic and unintended consequences of giving AI a robot body.
In Breathless: Catie and the Robot, a modern retelling of the American workday, she danced with a robot in New York for eight straight hours.
Cuan is the CEO of Zenie, a consumer AI startup, an artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Exploratorium and a postdoc in computer science at Stanford.
In Breathless: Catie and the Robot, a modern retelling of the American workday, she danced with a robot in New York for eight straight hours.
Cuan is the CEO of Zenie, a consumer AI startup, an artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Exploratorium and a postdoc in computer science at Stanford.
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