Not inside you yet.
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When I heard that Google’s Eric Schmidt had sat down to chat with a curiously trendy-looking Glenn Beck, I was hoping for questions like: “C’mon, Eric. Are you a commie?”
Instead, what ensued was a conversation about man and machine achieving perfect harmony, something that Lenin spectacularly failed to master.
Some might suspect that, in Google’s eyes, such harmony would involve Google being able to control your arm as it reaches to scratch your head.
Schmidt, though, was at pains to put that concept to rest.
He said: “Google does not have a connection inside of your brain.”
Which doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t make Larry Page sing Tosca in his self-driving Prius, should it ever come to pass.
Indeed, Schmidt then offered this follow-up: “We’re not that good. Maybe yet. Maybe never.”
This uncharacteristic spurt of modesty surely covers a burning need, you might imagine, to turn humans into the machines of the machines.
To this, Schmidt offered: “What we’re very good at, if you look at the AI is, we’re very good at looking at historical patterns and, based on historical patterns, suggesting things.”
Oh, yes. And just as good at excluding other things.[Read more]
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