![]() Have great potential to assist human expression and to expand creativityįor all of us. As amplifiers of human thought, computers With regard to the major physical and sensoryĭisabilities, I believe that in a couple of decades, we will come to herald The handicaps associated with disabilities using AI technologies has longīeen a personal goal of mine. With the broad and flexible intelligence of the disabled person. The restricted intelligence of the machine works effectively Which can provide effective solutions for the narrow deficits of mostĭisabled persons. The intelligence of our present-day intelligent computers is narrow, We're not creating cybernetic geniuses today not There is a fortuitous matchīetween the capabilities of contemporary computers and the needs of aĭisabled person. Have brought me the greatest gratification. It is the applications of the technology benefiting disabled people that It essentially does what a reading teacher does - reading to a pupil while Out loud while highlighting the image of the print as it is being read. Just as it appears in the original document (e.g., book, magazine), withĪll of the color graphics and pictures intact. The reading disabilities version, called the Kurzweil 3000, scans a printed document, displays the page ![]() In 1996, working together with a brilliant team of scientists and managers who had earlier worked for the original Kurzweil Computer Products or its successor company, I founded a new reading technology company called Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc., which has developed a new generation of print-to-speech reading software for sighted persons with reading disabilities, as well as a new reading machine for blind people. In this excerpt from The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Ray Kurzweil recalls the history of Kurzweil Educational Systems.
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