Ray Kurzweil becomes Google CTO

Ray Kurzweil is one of the most eminent futurists and artificial intelligence specialists. He has been engaged in speech recognition technologies since the 70s of the last century. He created several successful companies based on artificial intelligence technologies, and in the 90s he became interested in futurology and wrote several books that became bestsellers - “The Age of Thinking Machines”, “The Age of Spiritual Machines”, “The Singularity is Already Close”. Kurzweil is actively engaged in substantiating the onset of technological singularity .

Kurzweil takes up position at GoogleTechnical Director and will be involved in projects related to machine learning and natural language processing. Ray Kurzweil and Google have long been sympathetic to each other. Sergey Brin and Larry Page share Kurzweil’s views on technological singularity. In 2009, Kurzweil announced the creation of the University of Singularity, co-founded by Google and NASA. Kurzweil's predictions include autonomous cars and wearable computers like Google Glasses.

Kurzweil Predictions on a separate pageon Wikipedia. He believes that a computer will be able to pass the Turing test in 2029, in the 30s it will be possible to create virtual reality systems that directly interact with the brain, and in 2045 there will be a technological singularity - the whole earth will be virtually a single computer system, the human body It will be deeply integrated into it, thanks to numerous implants and nanorobots that prolong life and provide additional opportunities.