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align="left" height="90" width="95">A couple of
weeks ago, Google confirmed that it had purchased
DeepMind, a London artificial intelligence
company. This set off a flurry of speculation in
the technology press: What is Google planning now?
Nobody but Google knows for sure, but some of the
best technology journalists think they have it
figured out, though they don't completely agree.
We will probably know soon enough what the Google
of the future will be, but it seems certain that
this latest acquisition has <em>something</em> to
do with Google's core objective to make all of the
world's knowledge accessible.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://readwrite.com/2014/01/29/google-artificial-intelligence-robots-cognitive-computing-moneyball">Google's
game of Moneyball in the age of artificial
intelligence</a> (ReadWrite/Dan Rowinski)
"This is exactly what Google is doing:
exploiting market inefficiency to land
undervalued talent. Google determined that
intelligent systems and automation will
eventually be served by robotics and has gone
out of its way to acquire all of the pieces that
will serve that transformation before any of its
competitors could even identify it as a trend.
By scooping up the cream of the crop in the
emerging realm of robotics and intelligent
systems, Google is cornering the market on
talented engineers ready to create the next
generation of human-computer interaction."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175424-google-acquires-human-like-ai-company-for-500-million-skynet-is-now-a-real-possibility">Google
acquires human-like AI company for $500
million, Skynet is now a real possibility</a>
(ExtremeTech/Sebastian Anthony) "...DeepMind
appears to be in the business of creating
artificial general intelligence (AGI). The
co-founder and apparent brains of the operation,
Demis Hassabis, has published some papers on
AGI. AGI (sometimes referred to as strong AI) is
different from conventional AI (weak AI) in the
sense that it is capable of performing (and
learning from) very general tasks. Most AI (weak
AI) is programmed to perform a very specific
task.... AGI, on the other hand, is programmed
so that it solves problems in a much more human
way. Where weak AI is usually characterized by
speed and accuracy, strong AI is more closely
linked to reasoning, planning, self-awareness,
consciousness, and communicating in natural
language. In other words, if you want to build
useful, human-like robots, you need a really
good AGI."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/google-buys-a-i-company-for-search-not-robots/">Google
buys A.I. company for search, not robots</a>
(New York Times/Nick Bilton) "People who work
with Google but could not be named because they
were not allowed to speak publicly for the
company, said the acquisition of the artificial
intelligence software had nothing to do with
robots, but everything to do with semantic
technology and the ability to understand what
people were asking for online and answer in a
very human way."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://recode.net/2014/01/27/more-on-deepmind-ai-startup-to-work-directly-with-googles-search-team/">More
on DeepMind: AI startup to work directly with
Google's search team</a> (Re/code /Liz Gannes
and James Temple) "So what will Google do with
DeepMind? Artificial intelligence is core to
many teams at Google, from the self-driving car
to the search results page. Jeff Dean (the
Google executive running the team that DeepMind
is joining) was the lead author on a paper in
2012 that boasted of training a deep network '30
times larger than previously reported in the
literature' for the purposes of large visual
object recognition tasks and speedy speech
recognition. He also worked on a <a
href="http://allthingsd.com/20120625/and-for-google-xs-next-trick-it-will-identify-cat-videos/">somewhat
famous project</a> where a neural network of
16,000 computers presented with stills from 10
million YouTube videos taught itself to
recognize cats."</li>
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fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">In
addition to DeepMind, Google has recently
purchased at least six robotics companies.
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