Ray Kurzweil

In a wide-ranging interview at the Wall Street Journal's CFO Conference, Ray Kurzweil and Alan Murray discussed advances in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and what it means to be human.

At Wall Street Journal's CFO Conference, Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray talks with Ray Kurzweil on the many similarities between humans and machines.

At the event, Kurzweil addressed how computers will meet human levels of intelligence, by his predictions, by 2029.  That is the year, Mr. Kurzweil estimates, when computers will be smart enough to pass the Turing Test, in which a human judge can't tell the difference between answers given by a human and a computer. He details how IBM's Watson computer is already able to beat humans at quiz shows without full human capabilities.

Conscience and emotion will be a part of machine intelligence according to Kurzweil.  These are essential to passing the Turing Test.

"Emotion is not some sort of sideshow; there's intelligence and then there's emotion. Emotion is all these high-level concepts. It's the most sophisticated thing we do. Being funny, being sexy, being loving, these are very complicated and intelligent behaviors. It's the cutting edge of human intelligence."






SOURCE  Wall Street Journal

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