Like many of postings this is pure speculation. In case you hadn't noticed I enjoy being out on the fringe. Taking a peek at how things look from a detached perspective, allowing the connections between seemingly independent events to manifest. Sometimes I'm able to articulate how these connections formed, and sometimes the connection is quantum in nature. A geometric relationship of number in the abstract, it's a connection that logic only accepts because intuition has proven trustworthy. It stems from my basic premise, there is no separation, that any perceived independence is one of being for lack of better terminology a distance of relationship. Existence itself is fundamentally unified, if you believe you end where your skin does you will more then likely have problems with the larger leaps of connectivity. If you begin to understand that there is a cloud around you that is as much you as you "physical" body. It's more a matter of density, we are localized in space/time/time/space yes. Though we expand from our core becoming less and less dense, till we merge with the background. Merging with is not quite the same Idea as an end. As we, Humanity continue to learn more and more about the environment we find ourselves in, the more like a game world it seems.
So I ask you to keep an open mind when I say I ask this question.
So I ask you to keep an open mind when I say I ask this question.
Is Google preparing to move out of the Net?
Let me rephrase that, are you ready for Google to be an interactive AI companion, both online, and in the world?
Here are a few reasons I feel this might be just around the bend.
That alone is enough to make the news agencies ask questions, but does the story stop there?
Not exactly.
If you haven't heard of them check out Niantic Labs
This is an internal start up at Google, they have come out with augmented reality apps on the android platform, Fieldtrip and now Ingress.
I got an invite to ingress almost a year ago now I guess, it was during the closed beta phase. To be honest I didn't get it. I hadn't been exposed enough to the back story, what grabbed me was the idea of an MMORPG in the real world. I've been playing RPG games since before the D&D box set was released, thanks to my Uncle. So when I saw one that was both in the computer world, and in this world I had to check it out. The back story is great, it has enough real world to be mind warpingly engaging. Machine AI, and Shapers, another form of Intelligence vying for influence over the development of humanity. Tied all into ideas of immortality, and Resurrection. This is the tie it all together, the esoteric, and the science type of game. Don't get me wrong there are many players that hack the portals, place the resonators, be the character they made for the game, and it's a good game to do this with. There are some very real world connections being portrayed in this game. One of the main plot line characters is an AI named ADA.
Ada has multiple connections to computing in general, and AI in particular. Now many get the Ada Lovelace connection. There is more, geeks tend to revere the geeks that laid the foundations, So there is also Ada programming language. This language has been used for programming AI for quite sometime as is easily shown with a quick Google search lol. Ada AI Google search. One particular entry jumped out at me.
So even with this, it's a cool story bro, but it could just be great marketing on Google's part.
Lets also not forget about Ray Kurzwieler who has been telling everyone that this event is rapidly approaching. More then likely this event has already happened, and groups are rushing around making the back story before everyone in the world hips to it, and reacts poorly. So lets do some prespin and introduce these concepts in baby steps so people can adjust.
Add to that the predictions of the merging of man and machine to make the consciousness immortal, and things get a bit interesting.
Even Google, Yahoo, Bing and many more of what we consider programs act more akin to AI then most would care to admit.
Crazy or not, this is at least entertaining!!
Thanks
Jack
aka
PanseyBard