My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.