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."