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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What do you mean?

[Anonymous Coward]

Google search will be my next brain? Who do you think you are talking to, some Yahoo or what?

Re:What do you mean?

[ColdWetDog]

Google doesn't need anymore money, thank you very much. It's fine that they 'waste' it on research. Much like ol Elon.

Nonetheless, I think they need to think about doing something with less potential for serious problems. I found the phrase

We never told it during training, ‘This is a cat,’” Dean told the New York Times. “It basically invented the concept of a cat.”

To be the scariest thing I've read all day. It did that by parsing YouTube. That was the first attempt to parse YouTube with 'Deep Learning".

I do not want to be around when it finally figures out about 4Chan.