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18. Ray Kurzweil's second talk at Singularity Summit 2…
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Award-winning futurist, inventor, and author Ray Kurzweil on common criticisms of his concept of the Law of Accelerating Returns.

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  • Some Brain 2 years ago
    If I understand right, at seconds 0:32 - 0:52 Ray Kurzweil says that they are still working on a computer that will have the ability to tell the difference between a cat and a dog. But that's strange, becouse at the "Singularity Summit" in 2006 he said -

    "Computers CAN now tell the difference between a cat and a dog. We are going to be adding a feature to this product so that a blind person could snap a picture and it will tell them, there’s a cat in front of you, there’s a lamp to your left. Your ex-wife is over to your right. We are in fact adding face recognition.

    Why is it that we can tell the difference between a cat and a dog now with a computer that we could not do that seven years ago? Two things: pattern recognition algorithms have gotten steadily more sophisticated, and we also have this tremendous data mining that we didn’t have seven years ago. You need a lot of data to train these pattern-recognition algorithms. If you want a million pictures of cats and dogs, you know exactly where to get them. There are in fact three million pictures of dogs on Google. It’s a nice game to try to guess how many pictures of different things are up there. (There are more pictures of cats - 3.6 million.) You can train these algorithms. You would be hard pressed to find a thousand pictures of cats and dogs seven years ago"

    acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=1254

    did I miss understood him?
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