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"St Lawrence of Google"

mcho writes "The Economist has a story about Google's co-founder, Larry Page, who " always wanted to change the world". The article attempts to make an arguement about the company's true intentions, amid all the rumors about potential Google products. "Google is already working on a massive and global computing grid. Eventually, says Mr Saffo, 'they're trying to build the machine that will pass the Turing test' -- in other words, an artificial intelligence that can pass as a human in written conversations. Wisely or not, Google wants to be a new sort of deus ex machina.""

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  1. Deus ex machina? by saforrest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wisely or not, Google wants to be a new sort of deus ex machina.

    And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

    Seriously, does the author of the submission even know what deus ex machina means (not the literal Latin meaning, I mean how it's used)?

  2. Re:To the naysayers... it's inevitable by just_another_sean · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, yes, very Interesting. But...

    Hell, the other day I inserted a gibberish statistic in an article about a city

    Why would you do that?

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