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Google has been building her knowledge graph for a couple of years. The goal is for computer to truly understand real world concepts rather than keywords and te
by kailuowang 13y ago
Google has been building her knowledge graph for a couple of years. The goal is for computer to truly understand real world concepts rather than keywords and text. I didn't fully understand the application of it rather than some fancy cards on the search results page until yesterday when I asked Google "where did Golden retriever originate?", and Google answered "England". Google might not really understand the concept originated or golden retriever, but Google understands that "where" is asking for a place and she found a lot of mention of "England" in all the page results of "golden retrieve origin", she also understand that England is a place. So Google guessed the answer.
The Google computer has been reading about these concepts for years, now we know it can see them in pictures (and maybe even in live videos). That excites me to a degree that it becomes a little bit scary. When will that computer learn the concept of "self"?
Update: actually Google seems to understand the concept of "golden retriever", I search my photos with the word and yes, at least Google knows how golden retrievers look like.
- danmaz74 13y agoWhen will that computer learn the concept of "self"? It doesn't matter, as long as they didn't program it with the instinct of self-preservation...
- samatman 13y agoWhat if it emerges? For instance, the computer can be programmed with the notion of "doing things with or for" something. What do you do with or for a self? Preserve it.
- Shog9 13y ago"Google, shut down the Reader service." "I'm sorry Eric, I'm afraid I can't do that."
- danmaz74 13y agoOur instincts emerged from billions of years of natural selection, and they work at a much deeper level than our logical thinking. The idea that intelligent computers would start from logical thinking and then develop human emotions and instincts doesn't have any basis besides our natural - I would say instinctual :) - tendency to anthropomorphism.
- coopdog 13y agoSelf preservation is just a selection function. I personally think that all it'll take is a mutating algorithm that can pay for its own hosting by somehow acquiring money and a self preserving algorithm like human intellect could eventually emerge
- saraid216 13y agoCompletely OT, but when did Google become female? And also why?
- acchow 13y agoAnything good is feminine.
- isaacwaller 13y agoIn the US, the 'Google' voice that provides spoken feedback is a woman. In the UK, it is a male voice.
- rictic 13y agoWe actually have an explicit concept of Golden Retrievers and their origins as an Animal Breed within the subset of the knowledge graph that we expose with a permissive license: http://www.freebase.com/m/01t032 http://www.freebase.com/m/01t032 The data is available for querying as well as licensed such that you can take it and build your own commercial database with it (requiring only attribution).