Artificial Intelligence
The Google Guys, co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have long said they envision Google’s search engine ultimately becoming a real artificial intelligence, a thinking machine that could answer any question. To some people, this borders on creepy, evoking visions of the murderous computer HAL 9000 in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey or the Skynet AI in The Terminator that learned so much it decided that humans were a threat to its existence and had to be wiped out. More likely, Google will offer increasingly powerful AI techniques, already in primitive use when you misspell a querey and Google asks, “Did you mean: query?”
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