Ray Kurzweil has an insatiable curiosity. I talked with him recently, and even at his age, he was trying to learn all he can about cancer biology (which is not even his field) from the top people. If he was even half as intellectually curious as a teen, it doesn't surprise me he found a way to build a computer.

Ohh, AI. Every decade we say human-level AI is merely a decade away. And every decade we are again disappointed.

Poor Kurzweil. He's spent a lifetime on this obsession, and computers are no closer to being true composers than they were in 1965.

Where does a 17-year-old get the bankroll to build a computer in 1965?

With enough memory to write a composition, no less?