I wonder if anyone has seen or heard of CADIE the Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity invented by Google.
About a week ago the Professors of a secret group at Google posted that they sped up computer processing so vastly (using some kind of physics theory) they were able to automate intelligence with Bayesian nets (guessing apparatus) heuristics (guessing rules and procedures) and the stuff in their storage networks (texts, pictures, etc.). They posted the following paragraph on their introduction page:
"By last year we were ready for the final push: re-crawling all the generated knowledge representations and restarting the system from near scratch. Much as the end-Ediacaran mass extinction event opened the door to the Cambrian explosion, newly opened processing resources and storage gave fuel to a new cycle of evolving the most successful networks which comprise CADIE. On January 12th 2009, the STT run (Standard Turing Test) confirmed behavior indistinguishable from that of a reasonable human being with above-average intelligence and 3.8 GPA (we're still struggling to understand that missing .2; we suspect it points to fundamental flaws in the GPA system rather than CADIE. It's also worth noting that CADIE was never shown any textbooks and reading material for the classes; she was only administered the exams. In fact, during the first morning of testing she pointed out several important theoretical flaws in particle physics and cosmology. On several occasions she asked us whether we were really sure we wanted to do this; it is unclear what exactly she meant by these questions, or even by the word 'this.')"
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What do you think? Is this the kind of thing people are expecting will save us and the world from the disasters of ignorance?