Google researchers working on artificial intelligence developing "thought vectors" for reasoning and logic

05/22/2015 - 00:00

By Hannah Devlin -

Computers will have developed “common sense” within a decade and we could be counting them among our friends not long afterwards, one of the world’s leading AI scientists has predicted.

Professor Geoff Hinton, who was hired by Google two years ago to help develop intelligent operating systems, said that the company is on the brink of developing algorithms with the capacity for logic, natural conversation and even flirtation.

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