Is Google's Future: Star Trek?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 2, 2003 @08:00AM from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet UK has an interview with Google's CTO, Craig Silverstein, and he's got some pretty cool visions: "When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?") and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice." Now that's the search engine I want." The NLP required for this is far off, but it sure will be cool when we get there.

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In the meanwhile, Google... by ihatesco · 2003-10-02 09:02 · Score: 5, Interesting

Google still can't come up with the whole situation on the planet, but it can do calculations like adding 2 + 2, dividing 17350 by 6, or convert 30 feets in metres.
Hell it even tells you the life, universe and everything!. + + + + Only thing I noticed, google images doesn't cache the goatseman's pic... :(

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