TechRadar | Google, Ray Kurzweil developing ambitious intelligent AI search tech
January 15, 2013
Source: TechRadar — January 15, 2013 | Michael Rougeau
Computers that truly understand language. New Google hire and accomplished inventor Ray Kurzweil recently described his “ambitious” current project at the search giant in an interview with Singularity Hub.
Kurzweil is hoping to leverage Google’s massive pool of resources and data to develop technology that would create truly intelligent computers that can understand human language on a deep level. He said that technology will answer our questions before we even ask them, and that this function would likely be integrated into the “core technology” of our devices and computers. [...]
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by Cybernettr
But users will be OK with granting the new smart search technology access to their lives, because it will be “like a friend” to them, he concluded.
Until it stabs them in the back, that is.
This does raise some rather prickly ethical issues. What if it detects that you’re planning some illegal activity, such as a terrorist attack or drug deal. Will the computer that you think of as a friend turn around and rat on you? Will it have a moral obligation to do so?