Ray Kurzweil joins Google to work on AI (link)

post by D_Alex · 2013-05-05T05:59:21.860Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 1 comments

I am very curious what will come out of this. Does Kurzweil really have some insightful ideas that will help advance AI? He used to be quite the technocrat, but I have the feeling that he is more a philosopher these days than a technical person. But maybe progress toward a new philosophical approach is exactly what the AI needs... comments sought!

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/04/29/interview-how-ray-kurzweil-plans-to-revolutionize-search-at-google/

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comment by Will_Newsome · 2013-05-05T07:42:27.741Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

(I noticed about six weeks ago that Google's voice transcription tech got way better, and thought it might have to do with Kurzweil. Probably no connection though?)