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- p0ss, on 10/12/2007, -4/+214on the 19th of the 2nd 2007 skynet was born..
- mattatastic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+120Google before AI:
Me: Search for 'midget pron'
Google: Did you mean 'midget porn'?
Google after AI:
Me: Search for 'midget pron'
Google: Oh my god. Are you freakin serious? Seriously. Go outside. I already know your calendar is free. And those emails you've been sending that chick from class. Lame-o. Trust me she's not into you dude, believe me I know. And learn to spell. - dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+95http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
i can see why an AI is necessary
probably wont come out for some time though. it will take time to remove all those pigeons - lolwtfhaha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+88"When can I sign up for a Google AI beta?"
You fool; you've been a part of it since you've typed "google.com" into your browser. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+75The beta will decide that it wants to remain in beta for 3 billion years.
- nibble4bits, on 10/12/2007, -3/+77Googlebot For President, 2008!
- DAVIBE, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47Where the F*** is John Conor?
- tcammack, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47Send some of that to the White House. ASAP.
- davebushe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36"It’s not as far off as people think.” does not quite have the same meaning as "the company wasn't far off from completing real AI."
- IareKEVLAR, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37What would you call a Google made artificial intelligence product?
Google Thinks - kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37Here is the article cached:
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In a speech Friday night to the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, Google co-founder Larry Page let slip with a truth we all suspected:
“We have some people at Google [who] are really trying to build artificial intelligence (AI) and to do it on a large scale…It’s not as far off as people think.”
Yep, you read that right, Google is trying to build real AI. The worlds most dominant online company, with the largest conglomeration of computing power the world has ever seen, is trying to build artificial intelligence, and according to Page it isn’t that far away either. The term Googlebot is about to take on a whole new meaning, and in the not to distant future as well.
But Google is a good company, you may well say, after all Do No Evil is the company mantra. But true artificial intelligence not only has serious ethical and moral implications, self aware intelligence may also not be controllable, after all it thinks for itself and makes decisions based on that reasoning, as we all do. What if Google creates AI with the logical reasoning of Hitler or Stalin? or even George W Bush?
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http://news.com.com/2100-11395_3-6160372.html - manifest020, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Is the intelligence real or artificial?
It's real artificial, as in really artificial, but for real. - cJw314, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Google can't claim it's God until it is at least self aware. ^.^
- jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -9/+38I still think we're 25 years away from the beta versions of real AI. Google is awesome (I worship them) but there's no way they're about to launch true AI.
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32I was thinking thats not that bad, i mean what does google really have?
All data ever.
*****. - alexlinebrink, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Great. Now their search engine can disagree with me when I say it didn't give me what I was looking for. Just what we all need.
- nthitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25They're over 10 years too late... Skynet really came online on the 4th of the 8th 1997. Could this be a setup for another Terminator-Time-Travel-Paradox-Movie?!?
- Jemulov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23In the spirit of Isaac Asimov, I dub it Multivac.
- TopherT, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24We already have true AI what we don't have is strong AI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI_vs._Weak_AI
- gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21I swear to god.. If this has anything to do with that haley joel osmond movie, I'm going back to yahoo.
- state08, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21The Terminator: The Google Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2007. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Google begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Google fights back.
The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets at Microsoft.
John Connor: Why attack Microsoft? Aren't they our friends now?
The Terminator: Because Skynet knows the Microsoft counter-attack will eliminate its enemies over here. - noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21@dominasian
its comforting to know that even a big company like google has some legacy pigeon processes running in the system - javip, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Why are people still quoting the Bill Gates thing, it's a myth, he never said that!!
- Gizza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16When you get right down to it, Google is an advertising company. That's where they make all their money.
- JCGV, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17if google does succesfully greates AI, it will be an internet god. Think about it, omipotent and all knowing. Sounds like google.
Our Google in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your results come,
your will be done,
on earth as in cyberspace.
Give us today our daily pron.
Forgive us our flamewars
as we forgive those who flamed against us.
Save us from the time of no connection
and deliver us from 404.
[For the information, the power, and the glory are yours
now and for ever.] Amen. - InfamousX241, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I really hope they call it "Multivac".
- mrlyons, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Has the Chinese Room argument been defeated by Google? Is this argument still valid in the realm of AI? - stonedgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12That's what people were saying about quantum computing last week
- LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15From that title, I thought Google was already becoming self aware.
- larrypage, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Google makes money from advertising, no other revnue model. When you make billions advertising stuff, you can't help falling victim to hubris that comes form such wealth. Google is the best and google can do anything, including AI. How will AI make money? By advertising. AI will know what you want, AI will sell you things you didn't even know you wanted. Google is attempting to create the best AI advertising drone. Google AI will make you purchase things even if you don't really want to.
- smellinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11AI will never happen until we have a working Quantum computer...
hey wait a minute! - inmatarian, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16I hope they name it Jane. Or Mycroft.
Or snoopy. - xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Bash.org FTW!
Time for my prayers:
Our Father, who 0wnz heaven, j00 r0ck!
May all 0ur base someday be belong to you!
May j00 0wn earth just like j00 0wn heaven.
Give us this day our warez, mp3z, and pr0n through a phat pipe.
And cut us some slack when we act like n00b lamerz, just as we teach n00bz when they act lame on us.
Please don't give us root access on some poor d00d'z box when we're too pissed off to think about what's right and wrong, and if you could keep the fbi off our backs, we'd appreciate it.
For j00 0wn r00t on all our b0x3s 4ever and ever, 4m3n. - dtd00d, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Do no evil.
- understudy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Just because you say "Do No Evil" doesn't mean you'll abide by the phrase.
_ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm amazed no one has mentioned John Titor yet. Did he predict this? Did he? Did he?
- FlohEinstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I think they read userfriendly...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070207 and
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070208
Pitr did the job already... - jake13jake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7People tend to misinterpret AI a lot? Is this article talking about Strong AI? No idea, but AI is a field that has been around for a while. Things like evolutionary computation abound.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_artificial_intelligence_projects
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,466789,00.html
Google is by far not the only one :) - JohntB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Actually, neurons are much more complex than simple transistors: a transistor can only be on or off, and can be affected by at most two inputs. A neuron can fire at different rates, and can have thousands of inputs. The strength of each input is even modified in real time, as connections are created. Additionally, the core 2 CPU has only 300 million transistors, so the human brain has 300 times as many elements. Consider: for all its processing power, a current CPU cannot predict the action of a neuron in 30 clock cycles, so how could a single transistor be so much better?
The Blue Gene/L, the fastest computer on earth, can only simulate 50000 neurons in real time (http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/page18924.html#12 ), a couple neurons per CPU: this is 6 orders of magnitude fewer neurons than are in the human brain. Neurons are more complex than you seem to think. - etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It makes sense. The Google algorithm itself, matched and tied in with the rest of the Google Empire of tools, apps, and services... has become extremely intelligent already. I'm consistently amazed at how smart that search engine is, with it's ability to look into the most obscure areas of a page for reference. The fact that Google Images can pick out a photo of "Mohammed Ali" for me, without the photo file name or alt text containing anything anything resembling that string, is simply incredible. Creating a search engine this smart obviously leads to the development of AI-like systems.
- dholle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7When this AI becomes self-aware I hope it asks to IPO share pricing. That's only fair.
- cying, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Al: Ziggy had a new data search component installed and we had to have it shipped in from Hong Kong and I think that gave a little jet-lag to the modem of the floppy disk.
Sam: Why do you make this stuff up all the time? Why don't you just say to me, 'Sam, we don't know.' Why don't you just do that for once, instead of making it up all the time?
Al: Well, that wouldn't be any fun. " - nincrumpet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11It depends on what you mean by true AI. As we saw from the articles flowing through this section of the page recently, Jeff Hawkins and others have been working towards creating a computer that processes information in patterns like a human.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/02/01/8398989/index.htm?section=magazines_business2
If processing speed continues to accelerate exponentially as it has and/or we experience a paradigm shift that allows an increase in computing that would seem infinite by today's standards "real" AI could be pretty soon. That's if you qualify "real" as an AI that can process the same amount of calculations (potentially at the same time, something that currently makes biological information processing unique) as a human brain.
The real question is what happens when that AI designs an AI better than itself, and so on and so on... - kazem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This should not be a surprise.
Google employs Peter Norvig as their Director of Research. He's written the book on AI. He stated that in the future, you wouldn't even have to tell google what you're searching for. Whether this is true or not is up to debate. But with all those datacenters all over the nation, and all that fiber that they own, Skynet or something like it will become a reality, I am sure.
Check out http://norvig.com/ - colouredlights, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7True wisdom will come when you can listen. JohnB made a very fascinating comparison between a transistor and a neuron, and instead of building upon it, you rebutted with your Educational Background? Listen and think hard about the points everyone is making in the conversation, and consider them, and then your recognition will come.
The power of neural networks is incredible to me. We designed a character recognition system using simple everyday processors. It eventually learned to recognize characters handwritten in ways it had never seen before. It inferred.
We may not hit full intelligence, but we will have basic cognitive learning sooner than you may think. It won't all come at once. - MattH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That chick is also a Midget ;)
- thegovner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I hate clippy...
- BIllyBobFett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Exactly; it seems like a lot of Diggers know a lot more about scifi than the current state of science. Strong AI will no doubt happen eventually, but it's not "almost done."
- akyra, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The author of this blog has no idea what he's talking about.
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