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I'm Working On Artificial Intelligence. Actually, Natural Language Understanding, Which Is To Get Computers To Understand The Meaning Of Documents.

The Software Programs That Make Our Body Run ... Were Evolved In Very Different Times. We'd Like To Actually Change Those Programs. One Little Software Program, Called The Fat Insulin Receptor Gene, Basically Says, 'hold Onto Every Calorie, Because The Next Hunting Season May Not Work Out So Well.' That Was In The Interests Of The Species Tens Of Thousands Of Years Ago. We'd Like To Turn That Program Off.

We Have The Means Right Now To Live Long Enough To Live Forever. Existing Knowledge Can Be Aggressively Applied To Dramatically Slow Down Aging Processes So We Can Still Be In Vital Health When The More Radical Life-extending Therapies From Biotechnology And Nanotechnology Become Available. But Most Baby Boomers Won't Make It Because They Are Unaware Of The Accelerating Aging Process In Their Bodies And The Opportunity To Intervene.

I Envision Some Years From Now That The Majority Of Search Queries Will Be Answered Without You Actually Asking. It'll Just Know This Is Something That You're Going To Want To See.

Take Death For Example. A Great Deal Of Our Effort Goes Into Avoiding It. We Make Extraordinary Efforts To Delay It, And Often Consider Its Intrusion A Tragic Event. Yet We'd Find It Hard To Live Without It. Death Gives Meaning To Our Lives. It Gives Importance And Value To Time. Time Would Become Meaningless If There Were Too Much Of It.