Ray Kurzweil became Google Technical Director

Ray Kurzweil - one of the most famous futurologists and specialists in artificial intelligence. He has been involved in speech recognition technology since the 70s of the last century. He created several successful companies based on artificial intelligence technologies, and in the 90s he became interested in futurology and wrote several books that became bestsellers - “The Epoch of Thinking Machines”, “The Epoch of Spiritual Machines”, “Singularity is already close.” Kurzweil is actively engaged in justifying the onset of technological singularity .

At Google, Kurzweil will assume the position of technical director and will be involved in projects related to machine learning and natural language processing. Ray Kurzweil and Google Corporation have long been sympathetic to each other. Sergey Brin and Larry Page share the views of Kurzweil on technological singularity. In 2009, Kurzweil announced the creation of a University of Singularity, co-founded by Google and NASA. Kurzweil's predictions include autonomous cars and wearable computers like the Google Glasses.

Kurzweil predicted a separate Wikipedia page . He believes that the computer will be able to pass the Turing test in 2029, in the 30s it will be possible to create virtual reality systems that directly interact with the brain, and in 2045 a technological singularity will come - the whole earth will be in fact a single computer system, the human body will be deeply integrated into it, thanks to numerous implants and nanorobots, which prolong life and provide additional opportunities.