Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.

2015-06-30 Thread John Levine
Is the WSJ a wholly owned subsidiary of GOOG? It looks to me like a WSJ journalist said that. If you read the paper, which is linked from the article and takes about five minutes, you'll find that article is cheap clickbait and has approximately nothing to do with the topic of the paper. As

Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.

2015-06-29 Thread Jon Lewis
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Mel Beckman wrote: Google has always played fast and loose with its AI claims, but today t has gone too far. In a WSJ story, Google is misleading people into thinking it has achieved emotion, if not outright consciousness, in its AI programming:

Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.

2015-06-29 Thread Randy Bush
Because Google is an ISP, it seems to me a legitimate discussion point. Given Google's penchant for crafty customer surveillance, this technology seems like one that Google might try to leverage into a snoopy product. . if we wasted this list discussing things which *might* be leveraged into

OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.

2015-06-28 Thread Mel Beckman
Google has always played fast and loose with its AI claims, but today t has gone too far. In a WSJ story, Google is misleading people into thinking it has achieved emotion, if not outright consciousness, in its AI programming:

Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.

2015-06-28 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Mel Beckman m...@beckman.org wrote: Don't computer scientists have a responsibility to deal forthrightly with the public on the real state of research in such fields as AI? When an Internet provider like Google makes such outlandish claims, one has to wonder

Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.

2015-06-28 Thread Mel Beckman
Because Google is an ISP, it seems to me a legitimate discussion point. Given Google's penchant for crafty customer surveillance, this technology seems like one that Google might try to leverage into a snoopy product. . -mel via cell On Jun 28, 2015, at 10:59 PM, Christopher Morrow

Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.

2015-06-28 Thread ryanL
has nothing to do with network operations. stick to reddit or slashdot. On Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 20:57 Mel Beckman m...@beckman.org wrote: Because Google is an ISP, it seems to me a legitimate discussion point. Given Google's penchant for crafty customer surveillance, this technology seems like