Google AI and Turing's Social Definition of Intelligence

Teresa Numerico

doi:10.3390/isis-summit-vienna-2015-s3039

Abstract

Google AI and Turing's Social Definition of Intelligence

Highlights

Over the past few years, major Internet, hardware and software companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM have conducted considerable research in AI and robotics, and made substantial investments in firms that are active in those fields
At the beginning of 2014, Google acquired DeepMind, an AI company based in London and co-founded by a former child chess prodigy, Demis Hassabis, for around £400m
In October of that year, Google bought two other AI British spin-offs of Oxford University: Dark Blue, a company working on machine learning techniques for natural languages, and Vision Factory, who are working on computer vision

Summary

Introduction

Over the past few years, major Internet, hardware and software companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM have conducted considerable research in AI and robotics, and made substantial investments in firms that are active in those fields. All these AI acquisitions, partnerships and investments followed a long list of acquisitions of robotics companies over the past few years. A major component of this list was Boston Dynamics, a company whose primary clients are the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps (Cohen 2014) Google clearly needs this kind of technology to deal with their core business, and with their more innovative developments, such as Google Glass, self-driving cars, etc. 2 of these areas of interest seem to be covered by the traditional fields of AI that from the 1960s onward has promised solutions to the same kinds of problems that Google is trying to solve today Another potential area for AI is the management of Big Data, which, as argued above (cf 4.5.1), lies at the heart of the marketing and profiling activities of the search engine. It is not by chance that the director of Research at Google Inc. is Peter Norwig, a key figure in the field, who was co-author, along with Stuart Russell, of the classical textbook on AI, Artificial Intelligence: a modern approach since 1995

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