Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

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

Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.