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Um, did anyone really not see this coming? Their whole deal was “we are going to merge humans and machines”, yet it had zero technical side on how to do that.

• grondilu 9y ago
  It was pretty clear from the beginning that this was all hype and talk with very little substance, but I thought it would slide more towards the cult direction (scientology-style, that is). What I read in this article suggests it's not going there, which frankly is almost a relief : a cult would be more concerning than just a failing company.
• sorent 9y ago
  Not true. Co-founder Ray Kurtzweil has a personal belief on that, which he wrote a book about (How to Create a Mind). In it, he describes his Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind, the theory that the neocortex is a hierarchical system of pattern recognizers, and argues that emulating this architecture in machines could lead to an artificial superintelligence. I believe he now works to bring natural language understanding to Google, hired personally by CEO
  • loorinm 9y ago
    Ok, that sounds cool. Is there a proof of concept somewhere?