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Meanwhile, over at the Googleplex, the search engine's headquarters in
Silicon Valley, Ray Kurzweil has a new job. He has been hired by Google
to "work on new projects ... reasons I found this appointment pretty surprising. First, I had
declined to review Kurzweil's recent book How to Create a Mind — the
basis for Google's decision to hire ... philosopher Colin McGinn for the New York Review of Books which
pointed out that Kurzweil knew, to a rough approximation, nothing about
the subject. And, second, I am not sure
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scientist/mathematician.... Perhaps
the leading neural net researcher in the world currently....
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Dr. Ray Kurzweil
of course
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Peter Diamandis
Creator of the X-Prize. I have met him once ... than me; but he's smart and
interesting.
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Amara Angelica
http://kurzweilai.net
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Ray Kurzweil's second-in-command, who manages the kurzweilai.net
website, and has an amazing breadth ... book
called "The Spike" in the late 1990s, which was basically just like
Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near", but too far ahead of its time
(and better-written
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behalf of Ben Goertzel
Sent: Tue 11/13/2012 12:53:06 AM
Subject: Fwd: Kurzweil's How to Create a Mind opens at #1 a mong all books on Barnes & Noble ... bestseller list
Wow ... Ray Kurzweil's book on AGI (which posits a very simplistic theory that
the mind and brain are a Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model) is a best-seller ... Forwarded message
From: KurzweilAlNetwork, Inc.
Date: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:
Subject: Kurzweil's How to Create a Mind opens at *1 among all books on
Barnes & Noble
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distracted with his successful trading operation, he's a brilliant engineering/AI
mind...
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Dr. Ray Kurzweil
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of course
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Peter Diamandis
Creator of the X-Prize ... conservative than me; but he's smart and interesting.
• • •
Amara Angelica
http://kurzweilai.net
Ray Kurzweil's second-in-command, who manages the kurzweilai.net website, and has an amazing breadth ... also wrote a book called "The Spike" in XX, which was basically just like
Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near", but too far ahead of its time (and better-written
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Goertzel <
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 9:17 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein
Subject: Google / Kurzweil
Hi Jeffrey,
The visit to Google was very interesting.... I'll summarize some ... first regarding OpenCog/Google
collaboration, and then regarding the situation of Al research and Ray Kurzweil at Google in general...
OPENCOG & GOOGLE
In terms of OpenCog and my own work ... learning to speech processing. To my mind, this stuff basically embodies the notions in
Kurzweil's book already. But Ray, I think, sees his approach as more distinct from
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future development of advanced Al and robotics in a positive direction. As Ray Kurzweil and others have
recently argued [13], it is a distinct possibility that the artificial intelligences ... Hayes and K. Ford., "Turing test considered harmful," IJCAI-14, 1995
13. Kurzweil, Ray (2005). The Singularity Is Near. Viking.
14. Breazeal, Cynthia (2002). Designing Sociable Robots. MIT Press
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When Humans Transcend Biology, published in 2005, is the seminal work
by futurist Ray Kurzweil.
He famously predicted that in 2045, humankind will have its Terminator moment: The rise ... neuroscience at
Middlebury College and once worked in a biomedical lab at Duke University. Kurzweil is a
friend.
Google hired him to help Maris and other Googlers understand a world
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When Humans Transcend Biology, published in 2005, is the seminal
work by futurist Ray Kurzweil.
He famously predicted that in 2045, humankind will have its Terminator moment: The rise ... neuroscience at
Middlebury College and once worked in a biomedical lab at Duke University. Kurzweil is a
friend.
Google hired him to help Maris and other Googlers understand a world
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this is
technology, and of late, exponentially growing technologies. My good friend Ray Kurzweil showed that any tool
that becomes an information technology jumps on this curve, on Moore ... available to every person with a cellphone.
Four years ago here at TED, Ray Kurzweil and I started a new university called Singularity University. And we
teach our students
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future development of advanced Al and robotics in a positive direction. As Ray Kurzweil and others have
recently argued [13], it is a distinct possibility that the artificial intelligences ... Hayes and K. Ford., "Turing test considered harmful," IJCAI-14, 1995
13. Kurzweil, Ray (2005). The Singularity Is Near. Viking.
14. Breazeal, Cynthia (2002). Designing Sociable Robots. MIT Press
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unconventional analysis.
But if (like me) you're fascinated by futurist Ray Kurzweil's
arguments that accelerating technology makes this unfolding era
truly different, Ford's logic, and fears, will ... issues they raise)
in a few recent commentaries.
As for me? When I hear Kurzweil talk about the Singularity, I
think, boy, if he's right — and we're going
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Subject: ra 's wildest rediction
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I consider Ray Kurzweil a very close friend and a very smart
person.
Ray is a brilliant technologist, futurist, and director of
engineering ... technology
predictions about the future than anyone:
As reported, "of the 147 predictions that Kurzweil has made
since the 1990's, fully 115 of them have turned
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