"Google is the revenge of the nerds, tackling the world as an engineering problem"
Hehe, this article has some funny postmodern riffs in it (well the best is from umberto eco who was a fun uni read) but this is an era of revenge of the nerds - Google Blogoscoped take google into the sociology classroom (which is sort of relevant to my day as I internally debate the importance of AI in customising syndicated RSS feeds for online publishers who want specific slithers of vertical popular data) :
"Google is the revenge of the nerds, tackling the world as an engineering problem, whose original PageRank algorithm no one wanted to buy. Even their organizational structure is another engineering problem, ready for analysis, logic, and the flow of rules. Research and development will always be their focus, and that means to think far into the future... where Artificial Intelligence, not stupid programs, answer users. The Googlebot, with a little training in Google’s AI labs, will slowly but inevitably start preparing for the Turing test."
"Google is the revenge of the nerds, tackling the world as an engineering problem, whose original PageRank algorithm no one wanted to buy. Even their organizational structure is another engineering problem, ready for analysis, logic, and the flow of rules. Research and development will always be their focus, and that means to think far into the future... where Artificial Intelligence, not stupid programs, answer users. The Googlebot, with a little training in Google’s AI labs, will slowly but inevitably start preparing for the Turing test."
posted by redbarren at 4:58 PM
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