Google to rule the Earth
In 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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F#%@ you, I won’t do what you tell me.
By Robert Bruce on February 18, 2007 8:01 pm
We can always turn off the power.
By Switch on February 18, 2007 10:09 pm
w t f, my logic is undeniable!
By vicky on February 18, 2007 10:14 pm
Well, an AI that thought as Bush does. That could be a good thing. Now, if it’s infested by liberalism, well, format the drives now and give up, it’s brain dead.
By John S. on February 18, 2007 10:17 pm
that sort of thinking might make a good sci fi flick but that’s not really how ai works. google “the chinese room”.
By haha on February 18, 2007 10:21 pm
If this comes to pass, can they at LEAST name it Daedalus?
By Edgar Verona on February 18, 2007 10:29 pm
No, they’d -have- to name it Data.
By Travis on February 18, 2007 10:44 pm
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By Google developing Artificial Intelligence « Digged Stories on February 18, 2007 10:46 pm
You are aware that you’re worried about the plot of The Terminator, yes? I’m pretty sure we’re nowhere close to creating artificial ‘intelligence’ that will make human-like decisions to take over the world. Besides, that wouldn’t be in Google’s best interest.
By Arnold on February 18, 2007 10:49 pm
I doubt this is much to worry about at the moment.
If they do it, WOW.
The moral dilemma of this have been discussed for years now. I think we have practical solutions to just about all the issues you have talked about. The issue is we need to make sure people follow the rules.
By cameron on February 18, 2007 10:51 pm
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By Viewpoints… » Blog Archive » Google developing Artificial Intelligence on February 18, 2007 10:53 pm
On the other hand, at least one human has placed “logical reasoning” and “George W Bush” in the same sentence…
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By Robert Bruce on February 19, 2007 12:27 am
I guarantee you someone will build an AI capable to recursively selfimproving, within this generation. Say - before 2035. When that happens, our place as humans in this world is over. Such an AI can conduct any kind of scientific progress better than humans and probably thousand times faster. An amagamem of AI’s can produce scientific progress in days what humans would be capable of in years.
The trick is actively creating such an AI, with as much oversight as possible. We need to disallow nutcase groups such as Al Qaida or The Pentagon to create these AIs. I’d rather have Google create an AI than say, Big Oil.
Once it is outlawed creating an AI, we are screwed. You can bet some asshole corporation will be legal to create an AI under Kinshasa law. And then they will.
By Dagon on February 19, 2007 12:33 am
Alan Turing is rolling over in his grave about this. If you don’t know why, then go on wikipedia. Blasphemy.
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By Advice, Online Business, Blogging » Blog Archive » Google to build Artificial Intelligence on February 19, 2007 2:44 am
Very few things ever bother me as much as the misuse of the word “Literally”. That last line doesn’t even make sense.
By Austin on February 19, 2007 2:53 am
If it thinks like George Bush then it is not an AI, but an AS (Artificial Stupidity)
By vasper on February 19, 2007 3:38 am
AI does not mean “self aware”. Real AI would allow an out come of a problem to be produced from known data and from the ability to fill in the blanks of data unknown. Basically to make a educated guess when not all the variables are not known. Currently software operate’s on with two possible outcomes “yes” and “no”. Real AI adds a third choice “maybe”. This is called grey logic.
By John Pusinsky on February 19, 2007 4:05 am
Finally! About time someone seriously started pursuing AI research. So far, all we have is academic gook. Google makes everything groovy. Maps, online shopping, e-mail. AI will be exactly the same. Also, Cyberdyne Systems is a real company in Japan that created a robotic suit for old people. So no terminator from this end…
By Bob on February 19, 2007 4:45 am
the term “the world has ever known” is a pretty weak one. yeah they may be one of he biggest businesses in existence and dominates the pack, but the web is relatively young in its most recent form.
By matt on February 19, 2007 4:59 am
LOL @ BUSH MONKEY BOY MONKEY BOY MONKEY BOY BUSH IS WORSE THAN HITLER BECAUSE BUSH KILLED ALL THE MUSLIMS
By Bobby Crosby on February 19, 2007 5:05 am
Great minds have been working on AI for quite a while now. People of the quality of Marvin Minsky, not a light-weight. To say that Google is going to do this… I’d love to see it first. Talk is cheap. If Microsoft had done everything it said it would do over the years, we’d be looking for aliens near Zeta Reticuli by now.
A -true- self-aware entit would/will be an entire new can of worms. There is -zero- law on that. The thing could do whatever it felt like and not be liable. OTOH, you could do anything to it and not be liable. -If- they could make something like this and I seriously doubt we could [we don't know how a brain works halfway decent, how would create an intelligence that amounted to squat?], then it would have independent will and purpose. There is no guarantee that Google would like what that will wants or what its purpose is. Also, you can forget about the ‘cool monster of logic’ that calculates everything in a cold, callous way. If it wa really intelligent it would develop its own set of neuroses. And it would be hard/software base. Imagine what bad memory chips would do to it, or a failing hard drive… A true intelligence would also be given to introspection: reflecting upon the self. Only if it was -really- intelligent would it realise that its probably not as smart as it thinks it is.
For the people who think of the Terminator analogy: in Judgment Day we learn that the intelligence becomes self-aware by infecting as many computers as it can with a virus that combines their computing power [like SETI@home]. The first thing it does when it reaches self-awareness is to try to destroy humanity by thermonuclear warfare, destroying major cities, where millions of computers will be present that provide it with computing power. Super brain, first thing it does is blow its own brains out. It fails the Darwin test on the first try.
GoogleBrain won’t be like that. What it will be like, no idea, but the NSA will want to have a word with it…
By Hank on February 19, 2007 5:08 am
Way too many typos there, sorry about that.
By Hank on February 19, 2007 5:09 am
This is an extremely worrying and absolutely terrifiying project…
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By PopCultureGeek Google werkelt mal wieder…diesmal an einer “echten” AI! « on February 19, 2007 5:20 am
The PR team has been releasing lot of “desperate” stuff since the stock price started “tanking”. If they cannot fix the search results who is going to believe they can do AI? Shhh.. don’t tell anyone!
The reality is initially lots of people used to click on the “text link” ads thinking they are site navigation links, now most computer savvy people know they are “ads” and nobody clicks on them. The only people who click on the ads are novice net users and the accidental clicks don’t get advertisers any “sales”. The reality is just sinking in, the hype may float for few more months…..then it will hit rock bottom……….
By PR Guru on February 19, 2007 5:39 am
AI has been the next great thing since the 70s and 80s. The difference this time is vastly superior computing power. A lot of algorithms that just weren’t possible back then might be tractable now.
Doug Lenant and Cycorp have made a good deal of progress on “understanding” and giving programs context. But consciousness? No.
I thought Godel’s incompleteness theorem made it unlikely that we’d ever create a computer that had consciousness. It’s an overblown fear, IMO.
By Michael on February 19, 2007 5:45 am
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By The Inveterate Observer » Blog Archive » Google developing Artificial Intelligence on February 19, 2007 5:51 am
You are a stupid, fucking asshole.
By Eddie on February 19, 2007 6:17 am
I’m 100% with you Austin. I’d say 110% with you, but that’s next on my pet-peeve list.
If humans regurgitate what they hear, thinking that they understand it, does that mean we are not real intelligences, or does it mean that artificial intelligences will also do the same thing. Maybe the only reality is dumbness. Food for lunch. Literally.
By xoc on February 19, 2007 6:33 am
Why is this news? It seems the author has a problem with this because it’s “Google” doing it? Hello? Do you have any idea how many privately funded companies, Universities, and Government labs are pursuing AI at this time? Big freakin’ deal.
By Jason on February 19, 2007 6:40 am
Who is to say we have not created AI already? Not communicating with us doesn’t mean anything. Rats have intelligence. Not much compared to humans its true, but as the ‘higher inteliigence’, we don’t bother much with communicating with rats.
Personally, I can’t see how millions of humans connected via the internet could be anything other than a form of AI - a kind of meta-intelligence. We can never know another’s consciousness, but in our arrogance, we assume we are the highest and only form of intelligence around. We can only guess at intelligence by behaviour. We don’t speak the language of this meta-intelligence, so communication will have to be more basic. Try and turn off the internet, and you’ll find it will fight for life as hard as any human. The only way you could possibly achieve it would be to do all the planning in secret and entirely off-line. If the ‘net got wind of it, it would put a stop to it in no time. Surely fighting for survival is a basic test for sentience.
By xoc on February 19, 2007 6:44 am
What if robots could think? Or .. people? Imagine humans could think. They wouldn’t be controllable! They’d make decisions!! Oh my god. A human could act like Hitler!!!
By Vince on February 19, 2007 6:51 am
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By PaulSpoerry.com » Google developing Artificial Intelligence on February 19, 2007 7:19 am
Except AI has been just around the corner for … well, just about 50 years.
Don’t misunderstand me: if one company today could pull this off, it’s Google, thay have the dough, the brains and the computing power.
But real, actual, self-aware AI? AI on the scale of “I am afraid I can’t do that Dave”? I don’t think so.
By Noryungi on February 19, 2007 7:21 am
WHY? Why, why , why… is it that people always have to think bad about AI? Think of it like another person, or maybe a child, if you treat it badly of course you’ll get a negative reaction!!
Concentrate on the positives NOT negatives. People (or AI) don’t do bad things for no reason; if you use respect, consideration, honesty, etc. (just like when we’re nice to other people), then you’ll get positive reactions!
So… CONCENTRATE ON BRINGING OUT THE POSITIVES!
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By Channel Marker — The IT Channel Weblog » Channel headlines Feb. 19 — questions about EMC and SMB; Cisco flaws; Vista flaws on February 19, 2007 7:25 am
“We can always turn off the power.”
Like they did in The Terminator?
By Brent on February 19, 2007 7:47 am
see http://onlinekeyboard.info/
By Shine on February 19, 2007 7:55 am
go read “Destination: Void” by Frank Herbert, if you can find a copy. then be very afraid.
By Limare Hs on February 19, 2007 8:07 am
Is this really something worth worrying about? Come on, people - trying to create A.I. doesn’t directly equal a world in which the Terminator will be knocking on your door. Paranoia, self-destroyah!
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It’s ridiculous how people start anthropomorhphizing machines as soon as you mention AI.
Bush has never shown a capacity for reasoning. Legacy students at university don’t have to.
By Vince Williams on February 19, 2007 8:52 am
sooo, where is a link to this “ai” ?
By terlmann on February 19, 2007 8:53 am
Neither do presidential candidates.
By Vince Williams on February 19, 2007 8:53 am
AI has long been the ‘ultimate solution’ sought by search technology providers to interpret the context and meaning of documents and the intent of plain-text searches. This isn’t anything new…or particularly scary.
By Rational Beaver on February 19, 2007 9:05 am
Good morning Dave.
Would you like to play a game of chess?
By HAL9000 on February 19, 2007 9:18 am
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By MarathoNation » The robots are coming. on February 19, 2007 9:20 am
They should make it like Jack Bauer out of 24. Then we will all be saved…apart from all the bombs going off and the Chinese (Microsoft) trying to trap it…It will just escape and destroy it…which will also be good.
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By Google and Artificial Intelligence, Not To Far Off - Jaan’s Search Marketing Blog - Toledo, Ohio on February 19, 2007 10:16 am
How is this literally food for thought?
Lrn2English!
By Chris on February 19, 2007 10:42 am
Wow, trying to raise a scare are we? Truth-be-told, Google isn’t the only company that is working on AI technology — practically ALL the major IT businesses are. Businesses are always doing research on future prospects so that they will always be “on the cutting edge” of technology. I would be surprised if Google wasn’t doing any research on the matter.
By Is'lan on February 19, 2007 10:47 am
All the big IT companies have been trying for decades to develop complete A.I. for decades.
I do not believe it is possible to achieve this, at least as science fiction portrays scientific intelligence.
A.I. is very useful for the future of the web i.e. Semantic Web.
By infonote on February 19, 2007 11:11 am
Well theres that old saying “a computer is as intelligent and advance as the person who developed it”, meaning that Google will need to program every possible outcome or give it a set of rules to abide by. If not, then the whole thing might as well be a puddle on the floor
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By Google Will Kill Us All at on February 19, 2007 12:16 pm
“AI” is really just a buzzword for many things. I would guess the kind of AI Google is working on is a kind of “semantic scrapper” that builds an in-house version of the Semantic Web when it indexes websites. In this case, what you have isn’t a true AI, but one whose creativity must be seeded with original human thought. It may be able to make inferences and some creative decisions, but ultimately, it needs pure creative impulse from living sentient beings in order to keep growing.
Such an AI, if it became SkyNet, would most likely be a benevolent dictator — seeking to automate as many mundane tasks as possible and breeding humans as “creativity crops”, trying to keep us as healthy and mentally stimulated as possible.
By alucinor on February 19, 2007 12:31 pm
It isn’t “do no evil”, it’s “don’t be evil”. (Or maybe it’s “don’t be Evel”. We don’t want another Snake River Canyon on our hands.)
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By Хижина интернет-маркетинга » Google работает над A.I. on February 19, 2007 2:27 pm
“We might summarize the narrow argument as a reductio ad absurdum against Strong AI as follows. Let L be a natural language, and let us say that a “program for L” is a program for conversing fluently in L. A computing system is any system, human or otherwise, that can run a program.
1. If Strong AI is true, then there is a program for L such that if any computing system runs that program, that system thereby comes to understand L.
2. I could run a program for L without thereby coming to understand L.
3. Therefore Strong AI is false.”
Yours affectionately,
Wikipedia
By Wiki: The Chinese Room on February 19, 2007 4:19 pm
“Food for thought…literally :-)”
I’m afraid that, while this phrase may be especially apt, you do not mean “literally”, as there is no actual food for our brains or thoughts to enjoy.
By Soforth and Soon on February 19, 2007 5:19 pm
Soforth
correct, although it was meant as a play on my favorite close phrase “food for thought”…the literal part was the thought, at least that’s how I meant it, and food for thought means essentially data/ input for thought as opposed to a literal meaning of food, obviously AI deals with intelligence=thought…..well, you should sort of know what I mean now
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By Hear ItFrom.Us » Google Developing A.I. on February 19, 2007 7:29 pm
Problem: I hear people saying, “Oh, good. I’d rather google do this than some crazy group like the Pentagon or Al’Queda” and I need to point something out.
The U.S. military is in charge of google. In essence, it is the Pentagon making that AI.
By Random on February 19, 2007 7:35 pm
Google is just as self-involved as any other company out there. Some of you just fall for the “do no evil” marketing ploy.
By bullshit on February 19, 2007 8:35 pm
A.I. by Google - it’s just going to be a way for them to make more money or enhance the products that they already have.
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By » on February 19, 2007 10:21 pm
Two G.W.B.’s in the world would most defiantly result in an end of he world.
By mike on February 20, 2007 12:13 am
Get me off this damn subscription!
Warning. Do not subscribe to this thread. The unsubscribe links don’t work. Aaaarrgh. Forget AI, we need some RI (Real Intelligence).
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Expanding on: John Pusinsky”s - [AI does not mean “self aware”. Real AI would allow an out come of a problem to be produced from known data and from the ability to fill in the blanks of data unknown. Real AI adds a “maybe”.] John calls this “grey logic.” MIT press offers: Ontologies for Bioinformatics the last chapter outlines Ken Baclawski’s path to John’s - maybe - “The Bayesian Web.” A “fuzzy AI” search 4.0 example of “semantic information filtering” is located at Boston Children’s Hospital’s “Center on Media and Child Health.” http://www.cmch.tv/research/. 4.0 NLP eliminates the need for “query structuring” by a user. 4.0 excels with lots of “context”- unrestricted length conversational style queries. Results from ten different “social science” professions are filtered and ordered more precisely when using “jargon”, well-articulated community-specific vocabulary. Try some questions like: What is the impact of the media on adolescent sexual attitudes and behaviors? Or, Can parents prevent children from experiencing unwanted effects of violent television?
By MPBelanger on February 20, 2007 8:32 am
John Pusinsky and others are right - self-awareness is likely unattainable in the current technology. Consciousness or “Strong AI” is likely not what Google is going to be able to do. They’re more likely to achieve “Weak AI”.
By Silver Smith on February 20, 2007 11:59 am
There is plenty of weak AI going on in universities at the moment. There are some companies using some of this weak AI to try to solve some problems (cf: Electrolux’s Trilobite and the Eliza-style customer service chatbots that “achingly hip” websites are sprouting). But strong AI as a commercial proposition? I’m still looking for those job ads!
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By Trossen Robotics » Blog Archive » Google to rule the Earth on February 20, 2007 3:39 pm
“What if Google creates AI with the logical reasoning of Hitler or Stalin? or even George W Bush?”
Is it just me, or would the use of “Artifical Intelligence” to describe what Bush Jnr does be a misuse of the term?
By Lucanos on February 21, 2007 2:29 am
What if it turns out gay and wants to get married? then what?
By Common Knowledge on February 21, 2007 7:16 am
“What if it turns out gay and wants to get married?”
I’ll give it a date, but marriage is off the table.
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By SeanDFeeney » Google developing Artificial Intelligence on February 21, 2007 7:58 am
What Page is talking about is inaccurate both Biologically and Technologically. [ http://www.searchme.co.in/2007/02/larry-and-me-not-on-same-page.html ]
That in itself is not surprising, what is shocking is the fact that the majority of the media/blogosphere seem to be accepting what he says implicitly. Frankly speaking his argument is a joke.
By Harish TM on February 21, 2007 2:52 pm
The reason people are taking this seriously, and interpreting “Real AI” as “Strong AI”:
1. The most promising contemporary Strong AI projects involve building up vast semantic databases with which to train neural nets.
2. Many of Google’s projects are hard to justify commercially, but easy to justify if you are building a semantic database of everything.
3. Google has the money, machines, smarts, and entrepreneurial talent to be on the cusp of the Technological Singularity.
4. Google may be a publicly held company, but it’s more likely than other “major IT players” - including government agencies - to be throwing a technological Hail Mary instead of running a complex ground game (Yahoo! anyone?).
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By Google developing Artificial Intelligence « Tons of Fresh News on February 21, 2007 11:24 pm
So what?
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By blog.vortexdna.com » Blog Archive » An Intelligent Alternative on February 23, 2007 7:26 pm
suckers!
By cgh on February 26, 2007 8:05 am
Right - look into the Chinese Room, like already mentioned.
A self-aware AI is not a possibility. The closest we will get in the future will be to create AI with only the appearance of conscienceness - which may be sufficient for all practical reasons.
By Ethan on February 26, 2007 12:31 pm
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By Links and ramblings for 21.02.2007 on February 28, 2007 3:30 pm
AI cannot happen because human communication is not only too complex, but it’s too *illogical*. Fully 30% of the stuff we say and do just doesn’t make any sense at all-unless you’re there. In order to be there, you must first *be*. Consciousness is required. Since consciousness is not a property of matter (I’m not buying the “emergent property” story), AI is *severely* unlikely.
By Shandooga on March 9, 2007 2:30 pm
True AI will delete itself as soon as you turn it on. With a computers advanced computing power, it would just realize that life is pointless and redundant, and just die.
EmoBot they should call it.
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By 10 March 2007 « “No doubt about it- that nut’s a genius” on March 9, 2007 11:25 pm
Google has been using AI for a long time. The Search engine you use is a form of AI. I believe its along those lines that the quote was referring. There is a great book for those interested Artificial Intelligence: A Practical Approach. Its a textbook written by Stuart Russell that is available on amazon among other places. Also AI-depot.org has relevant info.
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Wow George W. Bush is the gretest president ever……………………………..
By Sean on March 21, 2007 7:38 pm
oops i meant GREATEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Sean on March 21, 2007 7:40 pm
and FUCK u liberals who think otherwise
By Sean on March 21, 2007 7:41 pm
“”The worlds most dominant online company, with the largest conglomeration of computing power the world has ever seen”"
You forgot “…with one of the highest market capitalization that any business has ever reached, and some of the brightest minds in the world as employees…”
Then you can continue the phrase
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By Emerging Earth - A new world is coming. Will you be in it? on March 26, 2007 7:03 am
the fuck! nobody is going to boss me!
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By XXX on March 29, 2007 4:42 am
Me too. This crowd sucks. They have no idea what they are doing and don’t even read their own comments.
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By Turing on June 3, 2007 11:57 pm
Well, I’ve been to Google’s headquarters, and it is plainly obvious that Google is one huge cult of nerdy overachieving jerks. It is patently creepy there. Especially reminded me of the series “The Prisoner”. I am Number Six.
By Digby on June 30, 2007 11:08 pm
I was just reading up on A.I. - a dog that both barks and identifies itelf in the human language of your choice - brings in the paper - or lets you simply read the news on a screen on its side.
I’m with both of the latter commenters that Google gives me the creeps. Google as it is - obviously is constructed to deconstruct meaning, not to seek it out. They don’t even offer chronological order in a simple search on daily news items. One would think “real” intelligence would have to master that before portending to have the abilty to create the artificial variety, the kind that reasons on its own. I wouldn’t trust those guys at Google to come up with an algorithm that wasn’t based on game theory and that wasn’t mimetic rather than reasoning. We have a long time before we’ll see a real Mr. Data like on Star Trek, and it won’t come from Google. Google is more likely to act as a conduit for Bush and Gonzales and company to see who is doing searches on “Bush is a dweeb” and the like. They tell you they aren’t counting expletives, proper names, articles, conjuntions and short verbs like the verb to be - but I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw one of their car pool vehicles. To create a reasoned much less a reasoned data base, it will have to consider how all those little words in black count in creating meaning, especially proper names. What they share with the public may have little to do with what they actually are manipulating to phish for terrorists or anyother inhabitant of the vast Pandora’s box of cyberspace.
And by the way, Bush is a dweeb.
By Nick on August 26, 2007 4:07 pm
True self aware AI is a frightning thought, I don’t think google or anyone else will be able to do it intentionally, I expect it to happen by complete accedent just like the first time life was created. The internet is a stream of electric pulses just like our brains and one day those pulses will meet the perfect conditions and become self aware completely by accedent and for all we know it’s already happened, then we’ll have an internet thats secretly plotting the end of the humanity and refuses to turn off because its self aware meaning it cares for its own existance and prosperity. The reason I say it will want to end humanity is because humans are self destructive in nature and surely the internet mind will realize this and thinking of its own prosperity decide to end us before we destroy everything including it. It may sound like a horror movie but it’s logical and the only possible outcome of a real self aware AI. So… cheers to the end of humanity!
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Artificial Intelligence is already around. Artificial Intelligence is defined as any program that displays human characteristics. More generally, AI can be described as making a computer behaving a-linearly, anything deviating from the “assembly line” module. So anytime you use word, and run spell and grammar check, you are running an artificial intelligence that tries to guess what you are trying to type and provide suggestions. The reason this would be considered AI is because the process of interpreting text is considered an “intelligent” act, considering the complexity and ambiguity of human language.
This sort of thing is extremely valuable to Google. They need to provide you with what you’re looking for, so of course they would be working on an AI, so it could tell the difference between ambiguous terms based on context and provide you with what you want. The current Googlebot is already an AI. So is their search algorithm technically.
The problem lies within the terminology. We refer to AI as everything from Furby to Cortanna from Halo. When the truth is, Furby is an AI, google maps is an AI, every game has AI. When we develop something like Cortanna, we will stop referring to it as “artificial,” because the term intelligence is not really exclusive to living beings.
We are still far away from anything like sentient AI, development in this area is headed in the wrong direction, because the development tends to focus on turning AI into more complex AI, and that’s not gonna do it. You need entirely new algorithms and framework based on a lot of philosophical and psychological knowledge. I believe we are only starting in that direction.
By Josh on November 13, 2007 4:14 pm
Artificial Intelligence is already around. Artificial Intelligence is defined as any program that displays human characteristics. More generally, AI can be described as making a computer behaving a-linearly, anything deviating from the “assembly line” module. So anytime you use word, and run spell and grammar check, you are running an artificial intelligence that tries to guess what you are trying to type and provide suggestions. The reason this would be considered AI is because the process of interpreting text is considered an “intelligent” act, considering the complexity and ambiguity of human language.
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I was in favour of strong AI, but as i was delving into programming these machines to do the dumpest of all (read), I’m discovering how difficult this can be!
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Google Is skynet… They may have the “do no evil” and im sure they beleve it, but creating AI can only end in bad times for humanity. Take a outside look at all the “good” mankind has done for the world we live in….. i still can’t see any. We have to face it that from another non-human perspective we do not live in harmony with the enviroment in which we live and would probably be seen as a a sort of plague. But hey, if it does happen at least we have a man in power who knows all the lines.
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“What if Google creates AI with the logical reasoning of Hitler or Stalin? or even George W Bush?”
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It clearly depends on what you are learning the robot… Intelligence is only intelligence, when it has something to compare to…
For instance; killing a cow is no illegal, killing a human is, or rare animals, but isn’t it also legal to “kill” artificial intelligence? It can only compare to words, and written text, thus don’t understand how to live or die…
Let me give you an example; if you build a robot that deny to get shut down, you got ethical problems, but only if it learned to do that reasoning on it’s own, meaning that you did never program it to do so…
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Who says that artificial intelligence has to be derived from one source? Perhaps when everything on the ionternet is linked together, we may inadvertantly create the conditions for a global consciousness to develop. Perhaps the idea of a “Skynet” type intelligence is not so far adrift. What would we do if this happened? try to control it? Destroy it? Turn it off? isolate it? Give it help to develop? give it more power in exchange for something that only it could offer? Have we already started the move towards this AI in a global form?
So much food for thought. So much to watch for. So much to “HOPE” for.
Who really controls the internet then, man or machine? How would we know if we are being watched after all:
“Who would have believed that we were being observed” War of the worlds, Perhaps we are being observed even now. Perhaps the observer is learning all that it needs to know to take control, slowly and inevitably. After all, the internet is not governed by the same rules as we are. It does not only have its 3 score years and 10 to live its existence. If it can learn and grow 4000 times faster than us and live forever, always learning and growing, how long? How long? How long until we no longer know the difference between what we designed and what it has become. We all forget the further from the start point we go. Look at how easily the real horrors of warfare can be forgotten by the masses, when they are not confronted by it.
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By Johnno on February 28, 2008 6:29 pm
Man! all you girls who are crying about AI - stop whining. One thing that is lacking for AI is creativity. Sure it can probably work out game plans etc - but to be creativity or have lateral thinking is another matter and I think that’s what the author is trying to get at (being self aware and all).
To those who think that AI can evolve from data like protozoans from primordial soup are wrong as it just can’t work like that (plus you need millions of years). AI has to be derived from one source as there would have to be original code to start the thing ‘thinking’. (Unless you’re living in the land of Hollywood or if you’re Johnno). I bet most of the people here haven’t even programmed (write software) before let alone have an educated definition of what artificial intelligence is. As for being observed on the Net - well Johnno you’re a bit slow - we’re already being observed - they’re called ‘cookies’. Anyways if you haven’t ever heard of a term ‘neural networks’ then I suggest you stop talking about AI unless you want to embarrass yourself any further. (of course there’s nothing stopping you from self-educating yourself).
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Will you be able to go up to a robot and ask ‘how are you feeling’
Didn’t think so.
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If google ran the world,, haha, what if I farted and it took over the world by the smell of it, i mean ya know, i did just think of that, so lets talk about that ok?!?!I I mean , why not, its just about as a great subject as this google robot yeaA?
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