Ray Kurzweil, 66 years old, says that he just got his first job. He's a director of engineering at Google (not bad for a first job). But he has been busy all those other years as a computer scientist, entrepreneur, inventor, and author.
Some call him a futurist. He predicted that a computer would win a chess game with a human by the year 2000, a prediction that came true in 1997. One of his most famous predictions is that, by the year 2029, artificial intelligence will begin to surpass human intelligence.
Much of his work and his writing has been about artificial intelligence (AI), which just happens to be a focus of his new employer.
"Google has gone on an unprecedented shopping spree and is in the throes of assembling what looks like the greatest artificial intelligence laboratory on Earth; a laboratory designed to feast upon a resource of a kind that the world has never seen before: truly massive data. Our data. From the minutiae of our lives."
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