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Last month, Ray Kurzweil, the unofficial president of the singularity booster club, took a job at Google. This, of course, inspired much breathless speculation about just how a company in possession of an enormous treasure trove of our data plans to employ such a thinker.

Well today we got a bit of a hint, thanks to an event at Singularity U., wherein X Prize chairman Peter Diamandis and Mr. Kurzweil interviewed each other. Vivek Wadhwa, naturally, live-tweeted their discussion from the audience--and it sounds like a doozy:

We imagine that at Google, the term "unlimited resources" is taken rather literally.

This of course inspires us to speculate about what sort of personality a Google-engineered AI would have. Will it bear an eerie resemblance to Eric Schmidt or even (more ominously) Larry Page? Or will the apple fall farther from the tree, with all those Gchats and Android data points producing not an ultra-rational thinker but rather the computerized version of an eavesdropping neighborhood gossip?

Updated 1/6/2013: In a follow-up conversation with TechCrunch, Kurzweil denied that he would be given "unlimited resources," but said rather that he'd be getting “sufficient resources for a very important project.” We still imagine that's a pretty substantial amount of resources. He did however give a bit more detail about what he'd actually be doing, which is midwifing, ultimately, a future of search that looks a little like this:

This friend of yours, this cybernetic friend, that knows that you that have certain questions about certain health issues or business strategies. And, It can then be canvassing all the new information that comes out in the world every minute and then bring things to your attention without you asking about them.

There was a bit of bad news for the space enthusiasts, though:

Ray Kurzweil thinks that intelligent robots are the ones that are going to colonize space--not humans. Will be extensions of us

— Vivek Wadhwa (@wadhwa) January 3, 2013

Sorry, Elon.

Mr. Wadhwa's crime? Trash-talking Boston's tech scene in a lecture at the MIT Entrepreneurs' Club.

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As it stands now, neither side is looking good. It's hard to say which is worse: Mr. Wadhwa's snooty tweets or the whining from residents of a city whose tech scene has been declining since the invention of internet.

Boston Globe columnist and entrepreneur Scott Kirsner led the anti-Wadhwa charge. "Can we agree that BOS-based Akamai, A123 & AVEO are worth more than the co you founded & were fired from?" he quipped to Mr. Wadhwa on Twitter. (Akamai! Founded in 1998! A123, founded in 2001! AVEO Pharmaceuticals, founded in 2002! Boston!)

Even Elliot Cohen, the program manager at the club that hosted Mr. Wadhwa, was appalled. "I savor moments like these because they provide a unique opportunity to educate a person such as yourself in all of the wonderful ways in which you are wrong," he wrote in an open letter on the MIT Entrepreneurship blog.

Luckily, Mr. Wadhwa has been through these trenches. "Have fought this battle about Boston before. A few people here are mired in the past and don't see the writing on the wall," he tweeted.

And: "I believe in saying what is right. Let the ignorant get pissed."

Also: "Can't believe all the defensive tweets from Boston. Reality: Silicon Valley left it in the dust. Sorry for the wakeup call."

A touch of reality, from the man who photoshopped a baby Twitter bird onto his shoulder.

Vivek, we have one request: Do us next! Does Silicon Alley stand up to Silicon Valley? How do you find the weather? The parties? The business plans? Do you like Mike? What do you and the bird that whispers tweets like "Silly: educated people demanding 'data' which shows that Silicon Valley leads Boston. Let's discuss real issues and fix real problems" into your ear really think about New York's tech scene? Dozens of readers are dying to know. You can even write about it for The Observer. Tweet us.

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