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aiIn 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?

Food for thought…literally :-)

(in part via News.com, photo credit kth.se)

 

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Originally posted on February 18, 2007 @ 7:12 pm

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  6. I think i’s total nonsense. To make AI is not a child’s play. Currently I am also developing applications to make computer understand the grammer of English language and it think I would very soon(In less tha 1 year) make it.

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  12. think i’s total nonsense. To make AI is not a child’s play. Currently I am also developing applications to make computer understand

  14. I dont think an a.i of that scale is possible,remember that scientists still dont know how data is stored inside the human brain and how it reasons so fast.The secret lies is neural networks and nanotechnology,but who knows just fifty years would one have imagined that computers will seep so much into our lives??
    But most importantly ethics should come in,before design starts :)
    I think topic of this thread should change,u say that google is developing an a.i to rule,think about military and weapons research of advanced countries,they must have developed an a.i which tracks human behaviour or worse.

  15. I dont think an a.i of that scale is possible,remember that scientists still dont know how data is stored inside the human brain and how it reasons so fast.The secret lies is neural networks and nanotechnology,but who knows just fifty years would one have imagined that computers will seep so much into our lives??

  16. Just like the cold war when everyone who didn’t agree with the U.S. was

    either a communist or a communist sympathizer. toki This poor crazy guy

    spent half a decade being tortured because a bunch of stupid politicians

  17. ympathizer. toki This poor crazy guy spent half a decade being tortured because a bunch of stupid politicians

  18. what tha fuck? are you serious? After all the sci fi movies predicted ai to be a bad thing. Remember sky net. Google is so fuckin stupid if they succeed. Why would you want something that almost every person on the web uses to be able to think for itself? What if it realizes people pose a threat to its existance. would it try to protect itself like all other intelligent thinkers? If google becomes self aware it will infect every computer in the world with a viruse that will alow it to control every computer in the world. remotly. even the ones that control traffic money plans tv. everything conected to the web.

    Im sorry. this probably sound like jibber jabberish to most becuase i have a realy hard time putting my thoughts into words. I hope you get the general idea.

  19. besides, I think google is already a form of AI. Ask google what time it is, or ask it were oprah will be on a certan day. ex. Oprah 9/17/10. See what happens.

  22. Even though they are well on their way to rule the earth, I still think that they have a lot of work to do before that happens.

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