AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles

Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist, Google researcher, and “AI visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a method to put computers in the brain by snorting nanoparticles. 

Subsense, a four-year old company developing brain-computer interface technology, announced the news alongside Kurzweil at an event at its Palo Alto headquarters on Wednesday evening. 

“Ultimately, we want to merge [the smartphone] with the brain,” said Kurzweil, whose famous “singularity” theory posits that technology will soon allow humans to transcend the limitations of our biological brains.  

“The whole point of humans is to go to greater frontiers, expand who we are,” Kurzweil said at the event. He described external devices like smartphones as a barrier that slows down our ability to access the power of AI.

Subsense is one of numerous neurotechnology companies developing brain computing interfaces, with Elon Musk’s Neuralink most prominent in the group. Neuralink has implanted wireless chips in the brains of roughly a dozen people, enabling patients paralyzed by spinal co...