[access-uk] Ray Kurzweil to join Google
- From: Colin Howard <colin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:14:56 +0000
Greetings,
This was sent to another group mid December and I have only just seen it.
The noted artificial intelligence expert will become director of
engineering
By Martyn Williams
December 14, 2012 07:25 PM ET
IDG News Service -
Well-known American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is joining Google.
The 64-year-old, whose work includes computer and machine intelligence,
neuroscience and virtual reality, revealed the move on his blog on Friday.
Kurzweil said his work at Google would focus on new projects involving
machine learning and language processing. The job begins on Monday, when
Kurzweil will take the title director of engineering, he wrote.
"I've been interested in technology, and machine learning in particular,
for a long time: when I was 14, I designed software that wrote original
music, and later went on to invent the first print-to-speech reading
machine for the blind, among other inventions. I've always worked to
create practical systems that will make a difference in people's lives,
which is what excites me as an inventor," he wrote.
"In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as
self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and
people criticized these predictions as unrealistic. Fast forward a
decade -- Google has demonstrated self-driving cars, and people are
indeed asking questions of their Android phones. It's easy to shrug our
collective shoulders as if these technologies have always been around, but
we're really on a remarkable trajectory of quickening innovation, and
Google is at the forefront of much of this development," he wrote.
Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Valley and general
technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on
Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is
martyn_williams@xxxxxxx
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