Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight.
My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.
