ClaimsRay Kurzweil

“"We don't have one or two AIs in the world. Today we have billions."”

Ray Kurzweil, Google director of engineering, SXSW interview 15 March 2017 A Google Exec Just Claimed The Singularity Will Happen by 2029 (ScienceAlert) archived copy

Factual AI capabilities

There is not just one or two AIs in the world today; there are billions.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

Reasoning

Depends on undefined meaning of 'an AI', so count cannot be tested.

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Ray Kurzweil, “There is not just one or two AIs in the world today; there are billions.” (said 15 March 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_74f90bed717a, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_74f90bed717a

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