Robots will be smarter than the most intelligent humans within the next 15 years, Google’s engineering head has predicted.
Computers will soon be able to learn from experience, tell jokes and even flirt, according to Ray Kurzweil, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) expert.
Google has spent billions of its £57bn fortune quietly buying up the world’s top robotics companies, including DeepMind, a British company which specialises in machine learning, and Boston Dynamics, which makes advanced military robots.
Privacy campaigners have long attacked Google for hoovering up users’ personal information and selling it to advertisers.
But Mr Kurzweil was recruited in 2012 to improve Google’s AI – with the aim of the search engine understanding what we are looking for better than we do.
The 66-year-old entrepreneur and futureologist, who predicted the rise of the internet and that a world chess champion would one day be beaten by a computer, has said machines will outsmart their makers by 2029.
In Dailymails’s interview with The Observer, he said: ‘My project is ultimately to base search on really understanding what the language means.
‘When you write an article, you’re not creating an interesting collection of words. You have something to say and Google is devoted to intelligently organising and processing the world’s information.
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