if you build it, they may come — cloud computing and Google code in MySQL

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Google as Your Supercomputer — starting in 2009 — Nicolass Carr & Robert X. Cringely
“Google is far more than a Search Engine – it’s an entire suite of services and massive datacenter infrastructure [see also] that’s poised to move the next level – to replace much of the datacenter of many corporations [...]

on chaining the AI’s Prometheus

Prometheus brings Fire to Mankind: image by Wikipedia
Dr. Aubrey de Grey: SIAI Interview Series

“The real big deal about the Singularity is the negative side rather than the positive side.
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“The possibility that when, if, we develop these machines that are recursively self-improving and become extraordinary intelligent very quickly indeed, they may [...]

AGI development — an isomorphism of failure to date?

What AI did wrong, and an isomorphism of failure
Thinking in Circles … Julian Morrison … 26 Oct. 2007
“General artificial intelligence has consistently failed. Although the number of problems thought to be general has been chipped away with narrow AI, the problem of generality shows no sign of being reduced.
“At the same time, [...]