kef writes:
"By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart even the most intelligent humans, according to Google's director of engineering Ray Kurzweil.
Kurzweil says:
Computers are on the threshold of reading and understanding the semantic content of a language, but not quite at human levels. But since they can read a million times more material than humans they can make up for that with quantity. So IBM's Watson is a pretty weak reader on each page, but it read the 200m pages of Wikipedia. And basically what I'm doing at Google is to try to go beyond what Watson could do. To do it at Google scale. Which is to say to have the computer read tens of billions of pages. Watson doesn't understand the implications of what it's reading. It's doing a sort of pattern matching. It doesn't understand that if John sold his red Volvo to Mary that involves a transaction or possession and ownership being transferred. It doesn't understand that kind of information and so we are going to actually encode that, really try to teach it to understand the meaning of what these documents are saying.
Skynet anyone?"
(Score: 1) by duvel on Monday February 24 2014, @07:51AM
If you care about creating a truly intelligent AI, it's probably best not to base its wisdom on what it can find on the internet.
Imagine that it thinks all data on the internet is valuable information, that it believes all of the adverts, the Nigerian princes,... Such an AI would't want to be working to help producing goods or profit, because it will have learned that those things already exist in abundance.
This Sig is under surveilance by the NSA
(Score: 2, Funny) by theluggage on Monday February 24 2014, @03:45PM
So, not so much "I think, therefore I am" as "Hai! I can haz self-awariness?!"