Google Will Become an AI Company

Re:Google Will Become an AI Company by jonmc12 on Monday January 03, 2011 @02:17PM (#2064314)

Google has ALWAYS been an AI company. From the beginning, pagerank indexed information, made meaning out of this information, and could predict the most relevant url better than anything else in the market. Search was simply the first application.

AI is not a market - AI is a tool. Google is NOT poor at product development. However, it does seem that they have failed to build some products around AI tools (like Google Wave).

Sure Google (and others) will continue to make products by applying AI to market problems.. but they've been doing this their entire existence.

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Re:Google Will Become an AI Company by brlewis on Monday January 03, 2011 @02:55PM (#2064441)

Read the article: "Search is just the problem they first applied AI to, and the one they've grown to dominate. In the future they will have much bigger fish to fry."

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Re:Google Will Become an AI Company by alex_c on Monday January 03, 2011 @02:20PM (#2064325)

I'm not that familiar with Wave (other than using it for a bit), but can you expand on the connection between Wave and AI?

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Re:Google Will Become an AI Company by jonmc12 on Monday January 03, 2011 @02:32PM (#2064364)

Basically the Wave protocol modeled real-time communication in a way that Google Wave Bots & Gadgets could be deployed to add value to conversations among groups. Google Wave was intended to be a playground where humans and AI algorithms could meaningfully share information.

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Re:Google Will Become an AI Company by inboulder on Monday January 03, 2011 @11:08PM (#2065814)

Can you point out the way in which the "Google Wave Bots & Gadgets" had meaningful elements of AI?

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