Robotic Nation Evidence: Will Google create the god of knowledge?

1.30.2006

Will Google create the god of knowledge?

St Lawrence of Google

The article is a fairly typical review of a Google speech until we get to the last paragraph:

If Google is a religion, what is its God? It would have to be The Algorithm. Faith in the possibility of an omniscient and omnipotent algorithm appears to be what Messrs Page and Brin have in common. It's “in their DNA,” says Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist famous for investing early in both Yahoo! and Google. Whereas Yahoo! was started by two Stanford students who turned a hobby into a business, Google was started by two Stanford students who turned an intellectual obsession into a quest, says Mr Moritz. And what is that quest? Merely upstaging Microsoft would be almost banal. “We're not trying to build a better operating system,” says Mr Schmidt (although that will not kill the rumour). Part of the plan is certainly “organising the world's information”. But some people think they detect an even more grandiose design. Google is already working on a massive and global computing grid. Eventually, says Mr Saffo, “they're trying to build the machine that will pass the Turing test”—in other words, an artificial intelligence that can pass as a human in written conversations. Wisely or not, Google wants to be a new sort of deus ex machina.At that point, what happens? If you have the money and know-how to create "an omniscient and omnipotent algorithm", what happens next?

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Google Is God
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/technology/dumbest_googlegod/index.htm

# posted by

Dimitar Vesselinov : 12:12 PM, January 31, 2006

Good luck with that, Google. Maybe they'll enable all of the world's network enabled video cameras to be the eyes and ears of the new AI, the accumulated knowledge of the Net and libraries to be it's memory and mind, and the computers, robots and networked vehicles of the world to be it's hands and legs.

Now that's scary.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:44 PM, January 31, 2006

Google cannot even filter obvious garbage out of their search results or crawl frame based sites effectivly so I think them coming up with strong AI is a long way off.

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:30 AM, February 01, 2006

I, for one, welcome our Google overlords with outstretched googly arms.

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:53 PM, February 05, 2006

Google is wathchig you.

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:37 AM, August 31, 2006

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1.30.2006

Will Google create the god of knowledge?

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