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Google has ALWAYS been an AI company. From the beginning, pagerank indexed information, made meaning out of this information, and could predict the most releva
by jonmc12 16y ago
Google has ALWAYS been an AI company. From the beginning, pagerank indexed information, made meaning out of this information, and could predict the most relevant url better than anything else in the market. Search was simply the first application.
AI is not a market - AI is a tool. Google is NOT poor at product development. However, it does seem that they have failed to build some products around AI tools (like Google Wave).
Sure Google (and others) will continue to make products by applying AI to market problems.. but they've been doing this their entire existence.
- alex_c 16y agoI'm not that familiar with Wave (other than using it for a bit), but can you expand on the connection between Wave and AI?
- jonmc12 16y agoBasically the Wave protocol modeled real-time communication in a way that Google Wave Bots & Gadgets could be deployed to add value to conversations among groups. Google Wave was intended to be a playground where humans and AI algorithms could meaningfully share information.
- inboulder 16y agoCan you point out the way in which the "Google Wave Bots & Gadgets" had meaningful elements of AI?
- brlewis 16y agoRead the article: "Search is just the problem they first applied AI to, and the one they've grown to dominate. In the future they will have much bigger fish to fry."