Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Google side-steps AI rumours





"'We are not scanning all those books to be read by people,' explained one of my hosts after my talk. 'We are scanning them to be read by an AI,'" Dyson wrote in a posting on Edge.org following a visit to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of John von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer.

(Via Boing Boing.)


Let's read the key sentence one more time:

"We are scanning them to be read by an AI."

One more time, in boldface:

"We are scanning them to be read by an AI."

(Special thanks to Patrick Huyghe.)

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