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+-   Are we Searching Google, or is Google Searching us-> on Tuesday July 29 2008, @10:15AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 29 2008, @10:15AM
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An anonymous reader writes "via robots.net: The folks at the Edge have published a short story by George Dyson, Engineer's Dreams. It's a piece that fiction magazines wouldn't publish because it's too technical and technical publications wouldn't print because it's too fictional. It's the story of Google's attempt to map the web turning into something else. Something that should interest us. The story contains some interesting observations such as, "This was the paradox of artificial intelligence: any system simple enough to be understandable will not be complicated enough to behave intelligently; and any system complicated enough to behave intelligently will not be simple enough to understand." After you read it, you'll be asking the same question the author does, "Are we searching Google, or is Google searching us?"."
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