i remember the hullaballoo awhile back arising
from
perjorative comments
made by richard wallace, of
alice
fame, regarding how simple we humans really are:
“Wallace had hit upon a theory that makes educated,
intelligent people squirm: Maybe conversation simply isn’t that
complicated. Maybe we just say the same few thousand things to one
another, over and over and over again. If Wallace was right, then
artificial intelligence didn’t need to be particularly intelligent
in order to be convincingly lifelike.”
perhaps
google
is rigorously
proving this
– with data from 86 languages and over 100 countries:
” Despite its geographic and ethnic diversity, the
world is spending much of its time thinking about the same things.
Country to country, region to region, day to day and even minute to
minute, the same topic areas bubble to the top: celebrities,
current events, products and computer downloads.“It’s amazing how similar people are all over the world based on
what they are searching for,” said Greg Rae, one of three members
of Google’s logs team, which is responsible for building, storing
and protecting the data record. “