Google's Kurzweil on teaching human language to computers

Famous inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil joined Google last month to work on "some of the most difficult problems in computer science," the specific machine learning and language processing.
"The project we intend to do is focus on the natural language understanding," Kurzweil said in an interview Hub singularity (see video below). "We want to give computers the ability to understand the language in which they read."
As Director of Web giant engineering, Kurzweil said that the challenge is not only one of the most difficult but also the most important.
"It's ambitious, in fact there is no project more important than understanding and intelligence re-creation," he said Kurzweil explains that one of the main challenges he and his team on the face Google is that language is hierarchical and only mammals have the ability to understand the hierarchical ideas. Kurzweil notes that computers such as IBM Watson are now programmed to process information in a similar way human.
Kurzweil predicts that the fruits of his research will eventually be applied to the "scale of Google" - Web giants vast data resources.
"I see a few years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered unless you ask," Kurzweil said. "He'll just know it's something you want to see."

The greatest information from CES so far

LAS VEGAS - Press Day at CES saw 12 good hours of press conferences manufacturers of consumer electronics from all backgrounds. Here is the news that mattered most.

TV

TV technology is still one of the most exciting fields at CES, and so far this year is no different. TV and hot technology today is 4K, also known as Ultra HD. Forte has unveiled two HD screens Ultra, 60 inch Purios due this summer and Ultra HD Aquos TV due in the second half of the year. Panasonic has introduced its new range of Smart TVs, including features such as My home screen, allowing everyone in a house to his own home screen personal and Share Swipe 2.0 which allows share content by tapping NFC smartphone people against television, and voice interaction / orientation, through which people can operate a TV remote control commands by speaking Panasonic or smartphone. Samsung reproduces the S9 series, including a 85-inch TV Ultra HD comes with its own floor stand easel comparable.
  One of the most anticipated announcements of the day was actually old news. LG has finally disclosed base price and availability details for its OLED TV, which was one of the stars of the show last year. The 55-inch model will cost about $ 12,000, according to LG American Marketing James Fishler. A 84-inch model will cost more than $ 20,000.
New appliancesLenovo Yoga convertible took its popular and has declined to 11 inches. He also introduced the ThinkPad Helix (below) during the evening event CES Unveiled Sunday. The company calls it a clamshell "rip and flip" design, because the screen is off the base of the keyboard, and can be replaced, even after a rotation of 180 degrees.

chips

During his press conference Sunday evening night, Nvidia launched its Tegra quad-core processor 4, which has greatly improved processing speeds and tricks new camera.

Intel has unveiled its next generation of processors, code-named Haswell, which should allow greater autonomy and new features in mobile devices.

Qualcomm also took a turn on stage, as CEO Paul Jacobs delivered the opening speech of the evening show Monday. Jacobs presented the Snapdragon processors 600 and 800 series, both of which work with the standard 802.11ac wireless and are made for premium mobile computing devices. The high-end 800 series include the newest technology Qualcomm 4G LTE provides data speeds up to 150 Mbps, almost five times faster than previous generation processors.

Games and Entertainment

Nvidia has drawn our attention to start with a prototype of his own portable gaming device brand, codenamed Project Shield. Android-based shield like a console controller greater than usual, with joysticks and buttons. He can play Android, Tegra, and PC games, play games streaming and the cloud. Although the demo was plagued with problems, Nvidia showed how the device can be used for gaming streams from any PC in your home to a big screen TV with what appeared to be gameplay in real time.