Ray Kurzweil Says He’ll Get ‘Unlimited Resources’ to Work on AI at Google | Betabeat

By Kelly Faircloth1:43pm

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Last month, Ray Kurzweil, the unofficial president of the singularity booster club, took a job at Google. This, of course, inspired much breathless speculation about just how a company in possession of an enormous treasure trove of our data plans to employ such a thinker.

Well today we got a bit of a hint, thanks to an event at Singularity U., wherein X Prize chairman Peter Diamandis and Mr. Kurzweil interviewed each other. Vivek Wadhwa, naturally, live-tweeted their discussion from the audience–and it sounds like a doozy:

We imagine that at Google, the term “unlimited resources” is taken rather literally.

This of course inspires us to speculate about what sort of personality a Google-engineered AI would have. Will it bear an eerie resemblance to Eric Schmidt or even (more ominously) Larry Page? Or will the apple fall farther from the tree, with all those Gchats and Android data points producing not an ultra-rational thinker but rather the computerized version of an eavesdropping neighborhood gossip?

There was a bit of bad news for the space enthusiasts, though:

Sorry, Elon.

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