In high school, he wrote software that enabled a computer to create
original music in various classical styles, which he demonstrated in a
1965 appearance on the TV show I’ve Got a Secret. Since then,
his inventions have included several firsts—a print-to-speech reading
machine, software that could scan and digitize printed text in any font,
music synthesizers that could re-create the sound of orchestral
instruments, and a speech recognition system with a large vocabulary.
Today, he envisions a “cybernetic friend” that listens in on your
phone conversations, reads your e-mail, and tracks your every move—if
you let it, of course—so it can tell you things you want to know even
before you ask. This isn’t his immediate goal at Google, but it matches
that of Google cofounder Sergey Brin, who said in the company’s early
days that he wanted to build the equivalent of the sentient computer HAL
in 2001: A Space Odyssey—except one that wouldn’t kill people.
Reference : MIT technical review
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