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Google Buys UK AI Startup Deep Mind
TechCrunch reports that Google has acquired London-based artificial intelligence firm Deep Mind. TechCrunch notes that the purchase price, as reported by The Information, was somewhere north of $500 million, while a report at PC World puts the purchase price lower, at mere $400 million. Whatever the price, the acquisition means that Google has beaten out Facebook, which reportedly was also interested in Deep Mind. Exactly what the startup will bring to Google isn't clear, though it seems to fit well with the emphasis on AI that the company underscored with its hiring of futurist Ray Kurzweil:
"DeepMind's site currently only has a landing page, which says that it is 'a cutting edge artificial intelligence company' to build general-purpose learning algorithms for simulations, e-commerce, and games. As of December, the startup had about 75 employees, reports The Information. In 2012, Carnegie Mellon professor Larry Wasserman wrote that the 'startup is trying to build a system that thinks. This was the original dream of AI. As Shane [Legg] explained to me, there has been huge progress in both neuroscience and ML and their goal is to bring these things together. I thought it sounded crazy until he told me the list of famous billionaires who have invested in the company.'"
Google is massively invested in producing autonomous robotic tanks for near future US military battlegrounds, and needs to win all the political support it can in Washington to ensure this project proceeds as quickly as possible. Propaganda plays a large part here, and selling the fantasy of 'thinking' machines to naive politicians and generals is essential.
In reality, Google's tanks are simply slaughter machines- autonomous only in the loosest sense imaginable, because like current drones, they are to be Human controlled (remotely) much of the time. Google's owners (who, by the way, make personal appearances at all significant zionist events in Israel) strongly feel that removing the 'risk' to US soldiers on the ground will greatly encourage the US to fight far more wars for Israeli interests. When Google has meeting with the US military, for instance, it details an imagined future scenario where the autonomous tanks are used to invade and 'capture' Iran- although Google's people obviously hope the USA will attack Iran conventionally, since the robotic tank project won't produce practical deployable results soon enough.
There is no such thing as real AI, nor can there be (real AI is the concept of semantics auto-emerging from syntactical systems- a complete logical nonsense). Fake AI is all about applying Human derived rules- like Google's current machine translation services that use massive databases of pre-existing pattern data drawn from Human activity. Google Streetview, for instance, is designed to create enormous sources of visual navigation data that can be mined and used to guide non-safe self-driving military vehicles.
Google no longer even tries to hide its military activities, but most sheeple don't notice the stories detailing how many companies involved in robotic military land vehicles that Google has recently purchased. Google is now emulated the laughable fake-scientific propaganda that attempting to build confidence in Reagan's so-called 'Star Wars' initiative. Everything the public was told about the potential of 'Star Wars' military research was an absolute lie, but a lie pushed by all the Slashdot-like technical media outlets at the time.
However, this time Google's vision of robotic holocaust machines that roll down the streets of a victim nation, mass murdering every visible Human, is certainly achievable to some real extent. Of course, any nation with a decent level of military defence would not fall prey to such a military tactic, but Google's owners only consider genocidal war against nations with almost no sophisticated ability to fight back against the US war machine. We are talking absolute evil here.
This is how the great game is played. The US just happens to have the deck stacked in their favor; is this a new revelation? Hardly...and Snowden thinks this is a bad thing. So he runs off to China and then Russia with his stolen data, which just happen to be America's key rivals. Let it be known, Snowden will never leave Russia alive, not because he doesn't wish to, but because his current paymasters will never allow it.