| Title:
| The Grill: Ray Kurzweil talks about 'augmented reality' and the Singularity
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| Description:
| The futurist and inventor talks about pervasive computing, augmented reality, and storage as a philosophical issue. By Ian Lamont. Computerworld (November 11, 2007). "[Q] What’s your definition of artificial intelligence? [A] Artificial intelligence is the ability to perform a task that is normally performed by natural intelligence, particularly human natural intelligence. We have in fact artificial intelligence that can perform many tasks that used to require -- and could only be done by -- human intelligence. There are hundreds of examples today, and they are deeply embedded in our economic infrastructure. All communication is governed by intelligent algorithms that route and connect the information. Programs are embedded into computer-assisted design systems. AI flies and lands airplanes, guides intelligent weapons systems, places billions of dollars of financial transactions each day. These examples are narrow AI, in that they are performing specific tasks, very! often sophisticated tasks that required human experts to perform. [Q] What could slow down the arrival of strong AI, or of the 'smarter than human' technologies you call the Singularity? [A] There are really two areas to think about. One is hardware and one is software. ..."
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| Author:
| Ian Lamont
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| Orig. Date:
| November 11, 2007
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| Source:
| Computerworld
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| Subject:
| AI Overview
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| Contributor:
| tom charytoniuk <tom.charytoniuk@gmail.com>
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:52:51 -0700
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