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is motivated by a desire to use technology, in Eric Schmidt’s words, “to solve problems that have never been solved before,” and artificial intelligence is the hardest problem I relate to this a lot. out there. Why wouldn’t Brin and Page want to be the ones to crack it? (I'm a physics major who just graduated Still, their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplesumma cum laude and I'm also, oddly mented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a beenough, a literary/ writer type.) I find the lief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps general trend towards automated intelligence somewhat that can be isolated, measured, and optimized. In Google’s world, the world we enter disturbing and find when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contempla- Natalia_Nicholson myself googling in 4 months ago place of generating tion. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. original thought too I found the statement often for my own The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster that Page made about taste. I first started Google trying to thinking about it when create artificial processor and a bigger hard drive. I was out at Kitt Peak intelligence on a large Arizona without The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-process- scale very striking. wireless internet for a Many people feign week; I was actually ing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it intelligence with their thinking, freely, again. "facts" that they have is the network’s reigning business model as well. The faster we surf read online, but can 20 people liked this. offer no further Katie Geisinger 1 year ago across the Web—the more links we click and pages we insight to these facts as they generally As we move from specialization to view—the more opportunities Google and other com- didn’t read any further to really understand generalizations it becomes necessary to the topic. Is this teach kids to how to deal with the wide panies gain to collect information about us and to feed artificial intelligence range of problems they will have to or just ignorance? address in the "real world". However, us advertisements. Most of the proprietors of the comhuman intelligence is limited. The 1 person liked this. creaters of Google have realized this mercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the limitation and they believe that they can create a well-rounded individual by crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to "adding on" to the brain's capacity for knowledge. You learn exactly what it is link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want necessary to learn so that you can move on to the next problem. There is no time is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in for anything more than that. their economic interest to drive us to distraction. 8 people liked this.
Jennifer Nielsen 1 year ago