Google's Larry Page: DeepMind 'discovered CATS on its own'

"It is disappointing that the government secretly did this stuff and didn't let us sell it to advertisers," Page said on stage at the TED Conference.

I fixed that one for Larry.

In other news...

Police are on the search for a serial killer, after the murder of two women sharing the same surname, Connor. Police are treating the ketchup-like blood stains as suspicious.

My irony meter just broke!

Google lecturing on the need for transparency in the collection and usage of personal data?!

Ha. Ha. Ha. Bonk. My head just fell off.

fixed

"Page also said that he thought the reason that Google succeeds is because like many other firms, they think about nothing but profit."

"I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be if I'm poor? And how do we create huge profits from the data from our user base? And how do we power our organisation to really focus on legalised spying and really drive it at a high rate?" he said."

Correction...

"DeepMind started playing video games and learning automatically. The same program can play all these games [like Battlezone, Pong, Demon Attack] with superhuman performance. Imagine if this kind of intelligence were throwing grenades at you."

Don't want to upset you Lar

" Imagine if this kind of intelligence were thrown at your schedule, your information needs. That’s what I’m excited about"

Most peoples 'schedule' is get up, go to work be told what to do, go home, eat, watch cat videos or play games, go to bed. A bit like your AI except work and play appear to be the same thing.

We need more than a Magna Carta for the web, we need it in other sectors as well, such as finance, and equality. It's nearly 800 years since the original Magna Carta was approved and its surprising just how many issues haven't changed that much.

Extracts from http://www.globalmagnacarta.com/magna-carta/

40. To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.

And you can see, London still gets a special mention, distinct from the rest of the UK...

13. And the city of London shall have all it ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water; furthermore, we decree and grant that all other cities, boroughs, towns, and ports shall have all their liberties and free customs.

Can't hear

Page was spot on that voice recognition is poor: it shows in so many newspaper reports and other publications.

There are three categories of documents these days:

1. Those full of typing errors.

2. Those with OCR errors, though modern OCR is pretty reasonable.

3. Those full of homophones: words with the right sound but the wrong spelling.

Deep Mind found cats "on its own"?

Au contraire! The path to world domination begins with hiding in plain sight.