Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain

New submitter Steven Levy writes with "a deep dive into Google's AI effort," part of a multi-part series at Medium. In 2006, Geoffrey Hinton made a breakthrough in neural nets that launched Deep Learning. Google is all-in, hiring Hinton, having its ace scientist Jeff Dean build the Google Brain, and buying the neuroscience-based general AI company DeepMind for $400 million. Here's how the push for scary-smart search worked, from mouths of the key subjects. The other parts of the series are worth reading, too.

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Totally Amazed

[tmosley]

I'm totally amazed by the progress these guys are making. Layering two modules together to allow image tagging is a stroke of genius, and seems to me that that lays the foundation for the Singularity RIGHT THERE.

I kinda wish they would turn some of that computing power toward some blue sky science (imagine deep learning analyzing CERN data, or Hubble imagery, or the human genome, or protein folding, or all of the above). Maybe use some of the resultant knowledge to design and fabricate better components for itself.