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Here's a collection of quotes from the triumvirate about artificial intelligence. http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/google-founders-artificial-

by neilk 15y ago

Here's a collection of quotes from the triumvirate about artificial intelligence. http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/google-founders-artificial-intelligence-quotes-archive/ http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/google-fou... (Except, ignore the Moffett field thing. That has nothing to do with AI research as far as I know.) Anyway, any Googler will confirm that Sergey Brin, in particular, keeps returning to this idea: that Google's ultimate destiny is to realize Strong AI. I'm not saying they've achieved anything. But I would not be surprised if they were putting substantial resources into it. It's even directly related to their bottom line. It doesn't have to end in HAL 9000. They may come up with some technology that is just more insightful about search queries. But even that would be worth billions and billions.

waterlesscloud 15y ago
You know, when you see all the quotes in one place like that, it does make their goals pretty obvious.
noibl 15y ago
> I'm not saying they've achieved anything. Clearly you're not aware of the CADIE incident a couple of years ago. http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/ http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/ Be sure to check the blog. (By far my favourite piece of Google whimsy, for the detail and number of teams involved) (You're right, muro)
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- muro 15y ago
  sorry - removed my previous comment in the meantime. It was obvious it's a joke, so I figured my comment is just noise. And now I can replace it with even more words :)
- inuhj 15y ago
  It took me much longer than I'm comfortable admitting to realize that this was an April Fool's joke.
cpeterso 15y ago
I've often wondered whether an AI system like OpenCyc could derive its knowledge base from web content, rather than relying on rules and assertions written by the AI's human caretakers. If anyone could do that, it would be Google.

by neilk 15y ago

waterlesscloud 15y ago

You know, when you see all the quotes in one place like that, it does make their goals pretty obvious.

noibl 15y ago

> I'm not saying they've achieved anything. Clearly you're not aware of the CADIE incident a couple of years ago. http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/ http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/ Be sure to check the blog. (By far my favourite piece of Google whimsy, for the detail and number of teams involved) (You're right, muro)

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muro 15y ago
sorry - removed my previous comment in the meantime. It was obvious it's a joke, so I figured my comment is just noise. And now I can replace it with even more words :)
inuhj 15y ago
It took me much longer than I'm comfortable admitting to realize that this was an April Fool's joke.

cpeterso 15y ago

I've often wondered whether an AI system like OpenCyc could derive its knowledge base from web content, rather than relying on rules and assertions written by the AI's human caretakers. If anyone could do that, it would be Google.