Re: Google wins

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2006 - 16:16:11 MDT


Goetz wrote:
>
> 1. Establishment of the world's most massive computing centers - this
> is odd, given that Google already has the best response time and most
> reliable websites in the world, and the amount of centralized
> computing power they are building does not seem necessary for indexing
> the web using anything like present means. Although I don't really
> know.
>
> 2. Scanning in and converting to computer-searchable files as many
> books as they can.
>
> When an AI is developed, Google will have the most computer power to
> run it on, and the largest collection of data to feed it with.

Size matters not. Have I taught you nothing?

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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