• The Verge, Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:32 PM

Futurist and artificial intelligence expert Ray Kurzweil joined Google a couple of months ago after Larry Page convinced him to explore some of the concepts in his new book "How To Create A Mind" at Google. Kurzweil points to Google's Knowledge Graph, which supports 700 million concepts and billions of relationships between the concepts, as the backbone for his research. Natural language is the basis for artificial intelligence, he said. Kurzweil will pull together a team who will collaborate with others at Google creating teams working on AI.

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