I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

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.

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

We're democratizing the tools of creativity.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.