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Re:What Is Ray Kurzweil Up to at Google? by lsalvatore on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:59PM (#14916627)
Autocomplete while I'm searching has become quite distracting when I want to search for something with more than 5 words. You have to search with your eyes closed. I could never imagine this "intelligence" (it's literally just pattern matching) popping up in my inbox.
Re:What Is Ray Kurzweil Up to at Google? by falcor84 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:21AM (#14917582)
> I could never imagine this "intelligence" (it's literally just pattern matching) ...

Arguably (and this is exactly what Kurzweill says in his books) intelligence is entirely "just" pattern matching on a large scale.