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originally posted by: Greenanon
a reply to: burntheships
Sounds like a cult.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: burntheships
Has everyone forgotten about the mysterious black barge Google was building? They passed it off as a super luxurious showroom.
Did anyone ever really find out what it was?
originally posted by: ketsuko
If this is our AI Overlord, I'm checking out.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a tiny switch that mimics the function of synapses in the brain. The cylindrical artificial synapse measures only 10 micrometers in diameter, which is much smaller than the thickness of human hair, and works just like a real synapse by regulating incoming and outgoing electrical pulses, according to a paper published in Science Advances. These artificial synapses could enable next-generation artificial intelligence that runs on a chip rather than a giant supercomputer.
Google promptly flipped out. This was in 2011, around the same time that a congressional antitrust committee was looking into whether the company was abusing its powers. Google never challenged the accuracy of the reporting. Instead, a Google spokesperson told me that I needed to unpublish the story because the meeting had been confidential, and the information discussed there had been subject to a non-disclosure agreement between Google and Forbes. (I had signed no such agreement, hadn’t been told the meeting was confidential, and had identified myself as a journalist.)
It escalated quickly from there. I was told by my higher-ups at Forbes that Google representatives called them saying that the article was problematic and had to come down. The implication was that it might have consequences for Forbes, a troubling possibility given how much traffic came through Google searches and Google News.
But the most disturbing part of the experience was what came next: Somehow, very quickly, search results stopped showing the original story at all.
The fact that Q's last two posts were duplicates...5 minutes apart, might suggest Q was either personally under attack...or that Q was having difficulty posting on 8 at the time.