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BIG BROTHER #39;S TAKE OVER!
Ray Kurzweil is looking forward to the year 2029.. That #39;s the year he predicts technology will be able to think without us mdash; aka the date that computers pass the Turing test. Our computers are growing more powerful at an exponential rate, and even Kurzweil is impressed by what we can do with artificial intelligence today. He #39;s been making the prediction that 2029 is the date for some time, and he repeated the date onstage at the DEMO Fall 2012 conference multiple times.. Kurzweil is widely known for creating the musical synthesizer, the Kurzweil Reading Machine, and other speech recognition technologies. He #39;s also made a name for himself through his interest in robots, his study of the brain, and for promoting the concept of the "Singularity," which is the point at which artificial intelligence exceeds human intelligence; he #39;s a cofounder (with Peter Diamandis) of Singularity University. Most recently he wrote the book How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, which looks at how reverse engineering the brain helps us understand how artificial intelligence fits into the broader world.. He also made a comment about Apple #39;s Siri voice assistant and how far it still has to go. Kurzweil was directly involved in creating Nuance, which is the speech-recognition technology behind Siri.. Think of Iron Man movie. Tony Stark made a friend out of his technology, Jarvis. He could talk to it and build a relationship with it. That #39;s what Kurzweil says we want out of ...From:ZeroPoint2013Views:2 0ratingsTime:04:07More inNews Politics

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