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martin  ·  4313 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Computers' Reasoning Skills to Equal Humans by 2029, Says Ray Kurzweil
Can't read the whole thing unless you subscribe to WSJ. Here is Kurzweil talking with Bloomberg about artificial intelligence and the future if you're interested

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/67071168-ray-kurzweil-intervi...





mk  ·  4313 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks for that.

I have to wonder why he didn't say 2030. 2029 seems oddly specific.

Personally, I think it will come sooner than that. If I had to guess, I'd say 13 years, or 2025. Natural language processing is finally hitting its stride, and when you couple that with something like IBM's Watson, you are about 2/3 the way there. The rest can probably be achieved with extremely clever imitation of human behavior.