{"id":33496,"date":"2013-12-21T16:49:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kurzweil-is-perhaps-the-most-prominent\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T16:49:24","slug":"kurzweil-is-perhaps-the-most-prominent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kurzweil-is-perhaps-the-most-prominent\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Kurzweil is perhaps the most prominent proselytizer of \u201chard AI,\u201d which argues that it is possible to create consciousness in an artificial being. Add to this Google\u2019s revelation that it is using techniques of deep learning to produce an artificial brain, and a subsequent hiring of the godfather of computer neural nets Geoffrey Hinton, and it would seem that Google is becoming the most daring developer of AI, a fact that some may consider thrilling and others deeply unsettling. Or both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/04\/kurzweil-google-ai\/\">How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain | Wired Business | Wired.com<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureof.biz\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">futuristgerd<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>singularity advocates<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurzweil is perhaps the most prominent proselytizer of \u201chard AI,\u201d which argues that it is possible to create consciousness in an artificial being. Add to this Google\u2019s revelation that it is using techniques of deep learning to produce an artificial brain, and a subsequent hiring of the godfather of computer neural nets Geoffrey Hinton, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8Ig","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}