VentureBeat | Even Ray Kurzweil is nervous about a future with hyper-intelligent machines
October 3, 2012
Source: VentureBeat — October 3, 2012 | Meghan Kelly
“We’re making very discernible progress in AI. It’s quite visceral,” Ray Kurzweil told the audience at the DEMO Fall 2012 conference.
He also made a comment about Apple’s Siri voice assistant and how far it still has to go. Kurzweil was directly involved in creating Nuance, which is the speech-recognition technology behind Siri.
“I think actually the natural language understanding of Siri is fairly weak,” he said. “That needs a lot of improvement. I think that’s feasible.”
Think of Iron Man (the movie version). Tony Stark made a friend out of his technology, Jarvis. He could talk to it and build a relationship with it. That’s what Kurzweil says we want out of our technology. We want a friend, and one day there will be a technology that can not only listen and understand what you’re saying, but reply. [...]
Comments (3)
by Marcos Marin
@1:50 — So I guess I could read the entire USEFUL Wikipedia in 3 months! :-D And by the time I finish it’s useful content would have halved! ;-)
by Kyle
Somehow Ray is not represented , even by his own articulation, as the true frontrunner he is. His multidimensional mind, ability, and application is somewhat lost in videos and talks like this. Glad for the videos, movies, and articles anyhow.
by Marcos Marin
Kurzweil? Nervous?! He is always so… cool…