AI believer cont'd

Google wanted Kurzweil because of his undeniable expertise in artificial intelligence and his vision for where AI should go and how to get there.  

He invented the voice-to-print program and he's still focused on language.  He thinks language is the key to creating intelligent machines that go beyond pattern recognition and computation to meaning itself, predicting computers that can joke and flirt.

But public opinion generally has serious misgivings about machines evolving super intelligence and the consciousness to use it.  You could name the movies with this theme: "Terminator,"  "Transcendence," and more.

As AI develops there have been attempts to stay ahead of the curve, to anticipate problems, to limit the consequences to good results rather than the possible-and-all-too-obvious bad results that could also happen.  

A British attempt to keep ethics in the equation is the subject tomorrow.