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Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail

moon_unit2 writes "An AI researcher at MIT suggests that Ray Kurzweil's ambitious plan to build a super-smart personal assistant at Google may be fundamentally flawed. Kurzweil's idea, as put forward in his book How to Build a Mind, is to combine a simple model of the brain with enormous computing power and vast amounts of data, to construct a much more sophisticated AI. Boris Katz, who works on machines designed to understand language, says this misses a key facet of human intelligence: that it is built on a lifetime of experiencing the world rather than simply processing raw information."

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  1. Re:Ah! by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    (That'll teach me to post to Slashdot when I'm sorting out my Mingus!)

    Stop doing that or it'll fall off.

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    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
  2. Shhh! My common sense is tingling . . . by mmell · · Score: 4, Funny

    COMMON SENSE - so rare, it's a god-damned super power!

  3. Re:experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you browse the same internet I do?? Bookish is not what would evolve from it.