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Author, Google Engineer, and futurist Ray Kurzweil tells Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Gerard Baker that advancing technologies will be integrated into ourselves. He speaks at WSJ’s CIO Network in San Diego.

I n what might be seen as further evidence that Google will soon be developing nanotechnology in a big way, the company's Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, spoke at the Wall Street Journal's CIO Network recently on the future of nanobots in our bodies.

"We'll have millions - billions of blood cell-sized computers in our bloodstream in the 2030's keeping us healthy, augmenting our immune system, also going into our brain, putting our neocortex on the Cloud," says Kurzweil. "Basically expanding our neocortex to the Cloud."

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It’s all part of a rapidly evolving integration of human and artificial intelligence, which the author, scientist and inventor refers to as the Singularity.

"We’re going to expand who we are. We’re going to become more non-biological,” Kurzweil, author of How to Create a Mind said. The biological capabilities of the human mind are improving at a linear rate, while the non-biological capabilities of technology are increasing at an exponential rate.



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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."






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