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Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us?
An anonymous reader writes "The folks at the Edge have published a short story by George Dyson, Engineer's Dreams. It's a piece that fiction magazines wouldn't publish because it's too technical and technical publications wouldn't print because it's too fictional. It's the story of Google's attempt to map the web turning into something else, something that should interest us. The story contains some interesting observations such as, 'This was the paradox of artificial intelligence: any system simple enough to be understandable will not be complicated enough to behave intelligently; and any system complicated enough to behave intelligently will not be simple enough to understand.' After you read it, you'll be asking the same question the author does — 'Are we searching Google, or is Google searching us?'"
If you're in Russia, Google searches you :)
After you read it, you'll be asking the same question the author does
Do you mean we are supposed to read TFA? Seriously?
Dawkins Revisited: A person is shit's way of making more shit -- Steve Barnett, anthropologist.
Wake me up when it starts teaching the monkeys how to use tools and kill each other. And no Republican jokes, either.
If you live in soviet russia or not
Is Google searching Google some sort of self-discovery process?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's a bit outlandish to think that just because a program is constantly watching and processing inputs that it is somehow sentient.
Proof: Any average couch potatoe watching TV 24/7. Constantly watching, (presumably) constantly processing, but no sentience can be identified in it.
Your counterargument being the quality of your TV program? Gee, you know what Google is being fed constantly? See, the proof stands firm!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't mind the porn I get offered, just the kind of porn. It's that sick, twisted, perverted and utterly gross kind of porn that comes up with the searches, the kind that I certainly do NOT want. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks like this, so I doubt this could be anyone's favorite kind of porn.
Ya know, the kind that you're supposed to pay for.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Proof: Any average couch potatoe watching TV 24/7
Well hello there, Mr. Vice-President.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Google is by far the biggest threat to the national and economic security of individual countries. It is a monster, and many non-US governments will have a bad awakening when they finally realize this and it's too late.
If Google wanted to, they could already nowadways influence stock markets on a large scale or heavily influence future research in just about any discipline globally or on a per region basis just by slightly modifying their page rank algorithm. From the user data collected by Google, you can already today compile a complete psychological profile of any user with static IP, including his skills, knowledge, sexual preferences, and so on.
Just about the only politician foreseeing the problems of global information dominance in the hand of one US company was Jaques Chirac who initiated a large project for developing a European search engine, but this project more or less died. I don't agree with Chirac on many points, but on this one he was right. (And no, I'm not a Frenchman.)
Frankly speaking, I'm tired of people who downplay Google privacy issues. In the long run, the problem is MUCH bigger than they can imagine.
That's just google's 5 year old AI posting on /. (again, I might add).
Unfortunately, it's mostly been fed V1@Gr@.
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
It's called a baseball bat.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us?
Whatever!! We all know that the answer is 42.
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The real reason is that some of the tubes are bent, and you can't see round corners.
At the bottom of the
...he just has an unusually wide stance. And, incidentally, a craving for sweet, sweet homo lovin'.
we should all be ashamed... if (as suggested at the end of the story) Google's internet and web page search and optimization activities resemble the dreams of a child that child is dreaming mostly of porn.
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Related to Miles Dyson who helped invent skynet?
Turing Beowulf Cluster.
If this project leads to the development of readily-affordable Summer Glau lovebots, then I think we men can all agree that eventual nuclear holocaust is a fully satisfactory tradeoff.
There is no helicopter.