Google developing Artificial Intelligence
February 19, 2007
Google co-founder Larry Page has a theory: your DNA is about 600 megabytes compressed, making it smaller than any modern operating system like Linux or Windows.
The programming language of humans, if you will, would include the workings of your brain, said Page, who offered his hypothesis Friday night during a plenary lecture here at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. His guess, he said, was that the brain’s algorithms weren’t all that complicated and could be approximated, eventually, with a lot of computational power.
“We have some people at Google (who) are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale,” Page said to a packed Hilton ballroom of scientists. “It’s not as far off as people think.”
Google has probably has some of the most powerful parallel processing in the world and they’re trying to build AI. What the article doesn’t speculate is what kind of AI? Search AI? Totally humanlike AI? What most people don’t realize is that AI is around us all the time. Traction control on your car… that was revolutionary AI at the time to be able to adjust to slipping without human intervention, but now people just dismiss it as something a car should have.
