Ray Kurzweil Designing Super-Intelligent Robot Assistant At Google

By JacobSloan on January 26, 2013 in News 24

Are you ready for a virtual personal assistant which “knows better than you” constantly injecting itself into your life? A preview of things to come, via Technology Review:

Famed AI researcher and singularity forecaster Ray Kurzweil recently shed some more light on what his new job at Google will entail. It seems that he does, indeed, plan to build a prodigious artificial intelligence, which he hopes will understand the world to a much more sophisticated degree than anything built before–or at least that will act as if it does.

Kurzweil’s AI will be designed to analyze the vast quantities of information Google collects and to then serve as a super-intelligent personal assistant. He suggests it could eavesdrop on your every phone conversation and email exchange and then provide interesting and important information before you ever knew you wanted it.

Artificial Intelligence, Futurism, Google, Ray Kurzweil, Technology

Anarchy Pony

Just wait til the feds get one.
- BuzzCoastin
  
  I think you you mean:
  Just wait til it’s leaked that the feds have had this for years.
Chaos_Dynamics

The Singularity: Your ad here.
- http://www.ContraControl.com/ Zenc
  
  I think Kurzweil prefers to call it the Cybersingularity.
  
  http://xkcd.com/1084/
Anarchy Pony

YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!
- diotima2003@yahoo.co.uk
  
  nah, I got Cameron on my side!
BuzzCoastin

> He suggests it could eavesdrop on your every phone conversation and email exchange and then provide interesting and important information before you ever knew you wanted it.

Uncle Homeland’s wet dream cum true.
http://twitter.com/TedHeistman Ted Heistman

I feel an awkward moment coming up in the future, where people upload their “memories” into a robot before they die of old age, and then this supposedly confers to them eternal life.

The awkwardness is that not everyone will believe these robots are people, but the more famous ones will have a cult like following and fans that will think they are still alive.
- Anarchy Pony
  
  Prepare for the coming immortal vampire class.
  - Jin The Ninja
    
    i’ve always said you can never go wrong with a trusty crossbow and some pointy stakes.
    - Anarchy Pony
      
      I got just got myself a fancy compound bow, it’s neat.
      - Jin The Ninja
        
        siick. archery is such a great skill.
      - Matt Staggs
        
        You know, like nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking
        skills… Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.
      - Jin The Ninja
        
        all of the above are essential ninja skills. i think all girls want ninja boyfriends.
      - Calypso_1
        
        I’d rather have a bakushi kunoichi.
      - Jin The Ninja
        
        japanese rope mastery is not one of my ninja skills:P
      - Calypso_1
        
        Carrying a smallish length of rope up the sleeve is a good adjunct to many techniques.
      - Jin The Ninja
        
        of course. garroting, blocking, snagging, throwing, trapping.
        in my comp. wushu days i loved watching flexible weapon forms.
      - Jin The Ninja
        
        of course. garroting, blocking, snagging, throwing, trapping.
        in my comp. wushu days i loved watching flexible weapon forms.
      - Calypso_1
        
        …. is ..that ..someone’s face on the end of the rope?!
        
        you’re using Manja & fishhooks….niiiice ; )
      - Jin The Ninja
        
        chinese version is slightly different. meteor hammer or iron dart usually. sometimes you see something really fancy like a deer hook or an iron bell, but i’ve never seen that in wushu, only traditional wudangquan or shaolinquan would use them.
      - Anarchy Pony
        
        And it’s super fun. Especially making long shots.
- http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient
  
  I cannot wait until someone has finally claimed to be able to “upload memories” into a robot, and it turns out just being a 100000 question survey about your preferences.
Haystack

And will this virtual assistant be represented as a paper clip with googly eyes, by any chance?