Peter Norvig (one of Google's AI leaders) shed some light onto this at his talk at the ACC05 conference.
What he alluded to there was a goal, in 5+ years from how, of having a system that can answer any natural language query whose answer exists somewhere on the Internet. E.g. if asked "Who was the first President of the US" it would answer "George Washington" because somewhere there is a web page with a sentence such as "George Washington, the first President of the United States, blah blah." This would be Step 1. He didn't talk about it, but it's obvious the next step would be something that could answer questions whose answers are not contained on any single Web page. This is not exactly a direct approach at AGI in the sense that it has no focus on self-understanding, creativity, and so forth. However, I can see how proceeding in this direction could in time create a system that could (with appropriate expenditure of additional effort) be turned into an AGI. -- Ben On 1/13/06, Martin Striz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/13/06, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5382048 > > > > "But some people think they detect an even more grandiose design. Google is > > already working on a massive and global computing grid. Eventually, says Mr > > Saffo, .they're trying to build the machine that will pass the Turing > > test..<< > > The New Turing Test will be the ability to detect spam as obviously as > a human mind. :) > > Martin > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your > subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
