Ray Kurzweil: 'AI is Still on Course to Outpace Human Intelligence'

Gennady Stolyarov II, who is the Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, served as the interviewer, whereby he asked Kurzweil a number of questions involving Sophie the robot, Watson-based medical diagnostics, and the potential risks of our future. But, of course, no interview involving Kurzweil goes without discussing the pace of AI in relation to human intelligence. Using examples of modern-day AI like AlphaGo, there are clear signs that they're already starting to outpace human intelligence involving specific tasks. This has been a common factor of AI for the last couple decades, starting with the simple goal of defeating the world's best (human) chess players. Today, they're outpacing us in chess, Go, various strategic computer games, and even medical diagnostics.