Kurzweil did a lot of good work on AI a while back; he came by his fame legitimately, as an engineer and startup founder. If he had then kept his mouth shut abo

Kurzweil did a lot of good work on AI a while back; he came by his fame legitimately, as an engineer and startup founder. If he had then kept his mouth shut about his predictions for the future, nobody would find his hiring at Google particularly surprising. (Don't believe me? Google it.)