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Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering

Posted by timothy on from the what-are-you-searching-for dept.

dgharmon points out news at CNET and on Ray Kurzweil's own site that Kurzweil will join Google as Director of Engineering. Specifically, "he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing," which sounds to me like another way to say "quickening the singularity."

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  1. SkyNet by Eddi3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    SkyNet will come to dominate all first posts soon.

    1. Re:SkyNet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "We appreciate his ambitious, long-term thinking, and we think his approach to problem-solving will be incredibly valuable to projects we're working on at Google: serving ads."

    2. Re:SkyNet by ShakaUVM · · Score: 5, Funny

      >He founded some companies and made a name for himself. But what breakthroughs did he actually make? What are his technical contributions?

      Funny.

      But yeah, in addition to the OCR work that made him famous, more recently his technology has been used to power SIRI and other NLP processes.

      I've been reading through his latest book, How To Create a Mind. It's pretty interesting. My wife and I just made one about four months ago ourselves.

  2. Kurzweil got a job! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yay! Kurzweil got a job. Now can he stop selling those cheap supplements, and speaking for longevity research at the same time?

  3. Re:"quickening the singularity" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about immanentizing the eschaton?