I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.
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 You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.
