Futurist Ray Kurzweil on What You Don't Know About A.I.

Ray Kurzweil wants to set the record straight on artificial intelligence. Yeah, sure, some elements of the narrative about developing computers that can think like humans have been exaggerated. But--A.I. technology is already much more advanced than you probably think it is. That was the theme of a conversation between Kurzweil, Google's director of engineering, and CNBC's Bob Pisani at the Exponential Finance conference in New York City on Wednesday. Kurzweil, named one of Inc. magazine's "26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs" back in 2005--we referred to him as "Edison's rightful heir"--is an inventor and futurist responsible for the first machine to recognize printed text and the first print-to-speech reading device, among other inventions.