He predicted the rise of the internet and that a world chess champion would one day be beaten by a computer.
Now Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil has said machines will outsmart their makers by 2029.
The 66-year-old entrepreneur and futureologist believes that in 15 years' time machines will be able to crack jokes, tell stories and even flirt. Is this possible !!!!
He is currently working on a project with Google which will allow computers to fully understand language and learn from experience.
In an interview with The Observer, he said: 'My project is ultimately to base search on really understanding what the language means.
'When you write an article, you're not creating an interesting collection of words. You have something to say and Google is devoted to intelligently organising and processing the world's information.
'We want [computers] to read everything on the web and every page of every book, then be able to engage in intelligent dialogue with the user to be able to answer their questions.'
The prediction comes at the same time Google assembles the largest artificial intelligence laboratory on the planet.
The company has recently bought Boston Dynamics, which makes advanced military robots, and paid £242million for British start-up DeepMind, which specialises in machine learning.
Google is building the world's largest artificial intelligence lab and has been buying companies, such as Boston Dynamics which makes this advanced robot, in order to help
Boston Dynamics makes the LS3 walker robot, which resembles a horse, and can navigate almost any terrain including steep slopes, rocky ground and dense vegetation. Google also purchased smart thermostat company Nest Labs for £1.9billion. The Nest Lab alarm is able to speak to owners, telling them where in their house smoke is and what is causing it. Kurzweil became famous for his theory of 'the singularity', the moment when computers and humans will effectively become the same thing. In 1990 he predicted that a world chess champion would be defeated by computer in 1998. In reality it happened two years earlier than that, when in 1996 IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov. He also foresaw the future uses of the internet in the days when it was still an obscure program being used by academics to store research data. He is now predicting that the 'Turing test' moment - when computers become cleverer than us - will be passed in 2029. The prediction echo the plot of new Oscar-nominated film Her, in which the main character falls in love with his new computer operating system 'Samantha' which can hold a conversation.
Now Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil has said machines will outsmart their makers by 2029.
The 66-year-old entrepreneur and futureologist believes that in 15 years' time machines will be able to crack jokes, tell stories and even flirt. Is this possible !!!!
He is currently working on a project with Google which will allow computers to fully understand language and learn from experience.
In an interview with The Observer, he said: 'My project is ultimately to base search on really understanding what the language means.
'When you write an article, you're not creating an interesting collection of words. You have something to say and Google is devoted to intelligently organising and processing the world's information.
'We want [computers] to read everything on the web and every page of every book, then be able to engage in intelligent dialogue with the user to be able to answer their questions.'
The prediction comes at the same time Google assembles the largest artificial intelligence laboratory on the planet.
The company has recently bought Boston Dynamics, which makes advanced military robots, and paid £242million for British start-up DeepMind, which specialises in machine learning.
Google is building the world's largest artificial intelligence lab and has been buying companies, such as Boston Dynamics which makes this advanced robot, in order to help
Boston Dynamics makes the LS3 walker robot, which resembles a horse, and can navigate almost any terrain including steep slopes, rocky ground and dense vegetation. Google also purchased smart thermostat company Nest Labs for £1.9billion. The Nest Lab alarm is able to speak to owners, telling them where in their house smoke is and what is causing it. Kurzweil became famous for his theory of 'the singularity', the moment when computers and humans will effectively become the same thing. In 1990 he predicted that a world chess champion would be defeated by computer in 1998. In reality it happened two years earlier than that, when in 1996 IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov. He also foresaw the future uses of the internet in the days when it was still an obscure program being used by academics to store research data. He is now predicting that the 'Turing test' moment - when computers become cleverer than us - will be passed in 2029. The prediction echo the plot of new Oscar-nominated film Her, in which the main character falls in love with his new computer operating system 'Samantha' which can hold a conversation.
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