On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:13:40PM -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote: > Language and vision are prerequisites to AGI. Google has an interest in > improving search results. It already does a pretty good job with natural > language questions. They would also like to return relevant images, video, > and podcasts without requiring humans to label them. They want to filter porn > and spam. They want to deliver relevant and personalized ads. These are all > AI problems. Google has billions to spend on these problems. > > Google already have enough computing problem to do a crude simulation of a
Um, no. It takes 64 kNodes of Blue Gene/L to do about 8 1/10th speed crudely-simulated mice, or about one realtime cartoon mouse (assuming, the code would scale, which it wouldn't). Google has a lot of beige boxes for certein, but wired in a 3d torus by unobtainium interconnects they sure aren't. > human brain, but of course that is not what they are trying to do. Why would > they want to copy human motivations? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=8eb45b07
