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Make the Ultimate AI Brain->  Submitted by anavictoriasaavedra
anavictoriasaavedra writes "Over at Wired there's an interesting
interview with Ray Kurzweill. He speculates the gap between
natural language and computer understanding of it will be closed
by 2029. When asked if the problem can be reduced to hardware
and software, Kurzweill replies: 'There are both hardware and
software requirements. I believe we actually are very close to
having the requisite software techniques. Partly this is being
assisted by understanding how the human brain works, and we’re
making exponential gains there. We can now see inside a living
brain and see individual inter-neural connections being formed
and firing in real time. We can see your brain create your
thoughts and thoughts create your brain. A lot of this research
reveals how the mechanism of the neocortex works, which is where
we do our thinking. This provides biologically inspired methods
that we can emulate