Showing posts with label Singularity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singularity. Show all posts

Friday, January 11, 2013

Google you still don't get this

Nothing to do with procedural generation, but maybe a bit about artificial intelligence.

Almost two years ago I was complaining about Google's lack of intelligence in matching ads to content. A bit later I was doing posts about tree and forest generation and Google kept serving ads about gardening and genealogical trees.

You would expect two years would have made a difference, then a week ago I started posting about T.I.L.E.S. These are the ads I get now:


Just makes no sense to me. With all the tracking and understanding they do, just a few words are enough to get them off the scent.

I'm glad they got Ray Kurzweil and all, but I begin to wonder whether the Singularity will be just sub-par intelligence at a massive scale. We are bracing for this:



When what we may be getting is this: