Google Nuggets for Summer 2016
June 11, 2016
I printed out several articles which contained information new to me. Here’s the run down:
- I found the suggestion that artificial intelligence could go off the rails amusing. The Alphabet Google thing is one the job, however. Here’s the story about a kill switch for smart software: “Google Is Working on a Kill Switch to Prevent an AI Uprising.” Like the Boston Dynamics robots and the many assertions that Android was not fragmented, the “working on a kill switch” sounds like smart software is not a problem. Terminator thoughts, anyone?
- Google was not included in the write up “Tech Moguls Such as Musk and Bezos Declare Era of Artificial Intelligence.” Poor Google. It sees an opportunity.
- I like it when companies assert that they are able to deliver. Self referential recursiveness public relations, perhaps? Navigate to “You Can Totally Trust Your Privacy with Google, Says Google.” When I worked in Washington, I thought I spotted some Google types at a certain three letter agency. Must have been my imagination. When I read about “totally”, I think about the Google Yahoo GoTo.com/Overture matter. Totally.
- The wonderful Daily Mail in merrie old England reported “Google Is Accused of Burying Results for Popular Pro Brexit Website on Second Page of Search Results.” I thought smart software and algorithms handled relevance. Maybe some real journalists in the UK are not aware of Google’s objective systems and methods.
Interesting PR flow from the Alphabet Google thing. Is it possible for a smart software company to protest too much?
Stephen E Arnold, June 11. 2016
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