Ray Kurzweil says he’s developing systems atGoogle Inc. that will allow computers to understand what data actually means, allowing businesses to make better decisions based on information they’re amassing through Big Data platforms.
Mr. Kurzweil made his remarks Monday during a panel discussion at the Global Directions 2013 conference sponsored by Kodak Alaris.
Mr. Kurzweil says Google can already reliably establish what individual pages, books and even video are about by extracting words contained in those documents and associating them with concepts in its database structure that indicate what they mean. But he says Google is now developing a data model that will allow its systems to understand the underlying meaning of language. “We haven’t done this yet — this is what I’m working on at Google — is to understand the meaning of documents…
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