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Raelian Movement for those who are not afraid of the future: http://www.rael.org
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Google hires Ray Kurzweil as director of engineering
Kurzweil is an author, inventor and futurist, as well as co-founder of Singularity University
Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google as director of engineering, the famous author, inventor and futurist confirmed on his Website Friday. His first day of work will be Monday, December 1.
Kurzweil wrote a lengthy statement about why he joined Google, and what his focus would be as an employee there.
Kurzweil wrote that he has “been interested in technology, and machine learning in particular,” since he was 14, when he designed software to write original music, and invented a print-to-speech reaching machine for blind people, among other things he invented.
“I’ve always worked to create practical systems that will make a difference in people’s lives, which is what excites me as an inventor,” Kurzweil wrote.
Google, he said, has made his predictions come true, including “self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions.”
“People criticized these predictions as unrealistic,” Kurzweil said, but Google has made them a reality.
“It’s easy to shrug our collective shoulders as if these technologies have always been around, but we’re really on a remarkable trajectory of quickening innovation, and Google is at the forefront of much of this development.”
“I’m thrilled to be teaming up with Google to work on some of the hardest problems in computer science so we can turn the next decade’s ‘unrealistic’ visions into reality.”
A bit about Ray Kurzweil
First of all, if you are like me, then you have no idea what a "futurist is."
Basically, it's what it sounds like: they are usuakky authors, consultants or o rganizational leaders who, essentially, make predictions regarding the future based on global trends, different scenarios, emerging market opportunities and risk management.
Kurzweil had previously collaborated with Google for Singularity University, a training center for corporate executives and government officials, located on the campus of NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley.
Kurzweil is the co-founder, Chancellor & Trustee of the University. Members of the Google team are on the Singularity University faculty, along with experts and executives from Cisco, Nokia, Auto Desk, the Kauffman Foundation, ePlanet Ventures and others.
Singularity University offers a 10-week graduate studies program, as well as, shorter executive programs. SU also offers specialized programs designed to bring the unique and stimulating environment of SU to organizations outside of Silicon Valley.
Earlier this year, Kurzweil was featured in a Super Bowl ad from Best Buy, in which he called his creation of a computer that could recognize printed letters "a solution in search of a problem" that eventually evolved into the building blocks for programs such as Siri. Also featured in the commercial were SMS message innovator Neil Papworth to Instagram founder Kevin Systrom, Square founder Jim McKelvey and Shazam creators Chris Barton and Avery Wang.
Google could not be reached for comment, but provided the following statement to Gigaom:
“Ray’s contributions to science and technology, through research in character and speech recognition and machine learning, have led to technological achievements that have had an enormous impact on society — such as the Kurzweil Reading Machine, used by Stevie Wonder and others to have print read aloud. We appreciate his ambitious, long-term thinking, and we think his approach to problem-solving will be incredibly valuable to projects we’re working on at Google.”
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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