Ray Kurzweil, of the Kapor & Kurzeil long bet (machine intelligence by 2029), author of new book 'How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed' and now Google's Director of Engineering talks Turing's Imitation Game, popularly known as the Turing test, in his interview with Singularity Hub's Keith Kleiner:
From here:
http://singularityhub.com/2012/09/29/exclusive-interview-with-ray-kurzweil/
More on Kurzweil here and Kurzweil's role at Google here.
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From here:
http://singularityhub.com/2012/09/29/exclusive-interview-with-ray-kurzweil/
More on Kurzweil here and Kurzweil's role at Google here.
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NB: From Kurzweil accelerating intelligence blog tribute to Aaron Swartz:
Quote from here: http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-best-tribute-to-aaron-swartz"If you are a scientist, you can pay the best and most effective tribute to the memory of Aaron Swartz by sharing PDFs of your published work on pdftribute.net via the hashtag #pdftribute on Twitter.Researchers are now offering open-access versions of their work using this hashtag.I also suggest to boycott the pay-walled journals of the science mafia and publish on arXiv, or one of the many excellent open access science journals like PLoS andeLife. Hit them in the wallet where it hurts; it is the only effective way to protest.New Scientist | Hundreds of researchers have been sharing PDFs of their work on Twitter as a tribute to Aaron Swartz, the internet freedom activist who committed suicide on Friday.Swartz was facing hacking charges from the U.S. government after accessing the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and downloading nearly 5 million articles from the digital library JSTOR.In a statement following his death, Swartz’s parents criticized the Massachusetts U.S. attorney’s office for pursuing charges against their son, and MIT for failing to support him. [NOTE: see also Time | Aaron Swartz’s Suicide Prompts MIT Soul-Searching.]Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, tweeted his own tribute: “Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep.”"
