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How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

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Re: How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

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Post by youngerdryas »

>Kurzweil eventually wants to help create a “cybernetic friend” that knows what you want before you do

I am not sure I want that. At least not as much as Google does. Kurzweil is going to help me click on more ads. Shreds any sense of him being a visionary.

Re: How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

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Post by gavinh »

I'm working on some open source projects that pertain to recognizing entailment in plain text. Entailment is the relation that holds when one text "follows from" another.

For example, "Carolina beat Duke" follows from "Carolina defeated the Duke Blue Devils once again". I have a demo here: http://ec2-23-22-22-135.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8001/demo

Here's an example app that uses entailment recognition to answer natural language polar (yes or no) questions: gavinmh.github.io/HelloTablet.

I'd be happy to talk to anyone who is interested in getting involved.

Re: How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

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Post by jodrellblank »

youngerdryas wrote: post #4

>Kurzweil eventually wants to help create a “cybernetic friend” that knows what you want before you do I am not sure I want that. At least not as much as Google does. Kurzweil is going to help me click on more ads. Shreds any sense of him being a visionary.

Surely it can also click the ads on your behalf, and save you needing to know about them at all?

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Post by jkldotio »

youngerdryas wrote: post #4

>Kurzweil eventually wants to help create a “cybernetic friend” that knows what you want before you do I am not sure I want that. At least not as much as Google does. Kurzweil is going to help me click on more ads. Shreds any sense of him being a visionary.

Worse than ads I think is the long-term (in civilizational terms) potential for this to be abused in the domain of politics.

Re: How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

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Post by modarts »

youngerdryas wrote: post #4

>Kurzweil eventually wants to help create a “cybernetic friend” that knows what you want before you do I am not sure I want that. At least not as much as Google does. Kurzweil is going to help me click on more ads. Shreds any sense of him being a visionary.

Sounds like a Minority Report version of Clippy.

Re: How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

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Post by jaxytee »

youngerdryas wrote: post #4

>Kurzweil eventually wants to help create a “cybernetic friend” that knows what you want before you do I am not sure I want that. At least not as much as Google does. Kurzweil is going to help me click on more ads. Shreds any sense of him being a visionary.

I'm 100% sure I don't want this. Exploration and discovery as a whole is one of the most rewarding experiences we have as humans. I don't want that outsourced to some machine/ algorithm. I addition to that, we deal with so much cognitive dissonance within our brains on a day to day, minute to minute, millisecond to millisecond basis, I'm not convinced Google (even with their massive cache of data on us) could even predict what we "want" anyhow. Think of youtube and it's "recommended for you" video suggestion. Just because I listen to Lil Boosie every now and then dosen't mean I want to hear all the shitty southern rap songs it's choosing for me.
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