<story><title>Ray Kurzweil joins Google</title><url>http://www.kurzweilai.net/kurzweil-joins-google-to-work-on-new-projects-involving-machine-learning-and-language-processing?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Thanks in part to the popularity of his books, movie, and speeches, Kurzweil now knows pretty much every AI researcher in the planet, and we can safely assume he&apos;s aware of even very obscure research projects in the field, both inside and outside academia.&lt;p&gt;Joining Google gives him ready access to data sets of almost unimaginable size, as well as unparalleled infrastructure and skills for handling such large data sets, putting him in an ideal position to connect researchers in academic and corporate settings with the data, infrastructure, and data management skills they need to make their visions a reality.&lt;p&gt;According to the MIT Technology Review[1], he will be working with Peter Norvig, who is not just Google&apos;s Director of Research, but a well-known figure in AI.&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.technologyreview.com/view/508896/what-google-sees-in-new-hire-futurist-ray-kurzweil/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.technologyreview.com/view/508896/what-google-sees...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ray Kurzweil joins Google</title><url>http://www.kurzweilai.net/kurzweil-joins-google-to-work-on-new-projects-involving-machine-learning-and-language-processing?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>It&apos;s seemed pretty clear to me for some time that Google&apos;s real mission is AI/singularity oriented and everything else is just a step along that road. It may not be what the day-to-day view is in the trenches, but it seems like the high level plan.&lt;p&gt;A hire like this one certainly reinforces that perception.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t know if it&apos;s truly possible to accomplish, but it&apos;s fascinating to see a major company taking steps in that directions.</text></comment>