Google is in the spotlight once again, in that it was confirmed that they are working on artificial intelligence, which may not be to far off in the near future. In his speech to the The American Association for the Advancement of Science conference being held in San Francisco, one of the founders of Google, Larry Page stated in his speech:

“We have some people at Google who are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale,”

and

“It’s not as far off as people think.”

I certainly hope Google has better luck in developing AI, than Microsoft has developing speech recognition, which by the way, still doesn’t work correctly in Vista. And there still hasn’t been a patch released as of yet for a discovered flaw. It should be interesting to see exactly what the folks at Google have in store for us.

Hopefully this new technology will still follow the company doctrine of ‘do no harm‘.
Watch the video of his speech here.

Homepage of the AAAS here.

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