"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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Bush Appears with Howard Dean in N.O.

[OakDragon]

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Re:It's just a search engine!

[Dachannien]

If you look at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, they have done more to help the world by investing billions into 3rd world nations and convincing others to do the same.

So remember, don't pirate Windows and don't use Linux instead. Please, won't you think of the children?

Re:T1,2,3

[drDugan]

As long people continue to propigate the concept of property, we will continue to have inter-human competition for resources. Hardware based tools, (computer agents, systems, etc.) will be placed into use to aggregate resources and yes, someone will build skynet.

One solution is to deeply investigate the possible worlds where humans, in a global, conscious choice decide to eliminate the concept of property. (NB: extreme changes in all human society would be associated with this.) I've done some research on this and I'm currently writing a book on what kind of worlds will be possible (post-singularity ) in relation to human assumptions on property. The concepts are not new, but the ability to implement them are new based on persistent global communication.