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Is Google's Future: Star Trek?
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.
IANATSTF (I Am Not A Total Star Trek Freak), even though I love the shows and some of the movies, I can't remember ever hearing anyone ask the ship's computer, or any other computer, that kind of question. And if they did, I'd fully expect the computer to respond with something like, "Please be more specific with your query," or perhaps, "How should I know? What do you think I am, a Soong-type Android?" Heck, it might even just say, "FP!"
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
It's official.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
ORAL feedback?!? You sick bastard!
It's an average search engine !
Why do people pump it up.
Gets way to much publicity on this site as well.
There are OTHER search engines out there.
Nothing unique in their software.
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christ, you're such a fucking fag, taco
good points. well said.
Guess what. My Original post has been moderated to Troll.
Wonderful. Speak your opinion and get banned.