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Join head of TED Chris Anderson for a very special conversation with legendary inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, recorded live onstage at TED2018. Listen in to hear what the man who makes a living from predicting the future arc of technology thinks is coming our way next -- including a specific prediction of when he thinks technology will finally gain human levels of language understanding. (Audio only)
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- The TED Interview
- Speaker
- The TED Interview
- Year
- 2018
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Computer science
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
- TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
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