## Futurist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil

## Inventor

2018 [Google’s latest AI experiments let you talk to books and test word association skills](https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/13/17235306/google-ai-experiments-natural-language-understanding-semantics-word-games)
Google’s work in natural language understanding is getting better all the time


2013 [Interview: How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google](https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/04/29/interview-how-ray-kurzweil-plans-to-revolutionize-search-at-google/#57878ee854c4)

> **The world is hierarchical**. Only mammals have a neocortex, and the neocortex evolved to provide a better understanding of the structure of the world so you can do a better job of modifying it to your needs and solving problems within a hierarchical world. We think in a hierarchical manner. Our first invention was language, and language is hierarchical.

> The theory behind deep learning, which I would call **hierarchical learning, is that you have a model that reflects the hierarchy in the natural phenomeno**n