{"id":12767,"date":"2014-10-30T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2014-10-23T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:03:42","slug":"amit-singhal-at-google-will-your-computer-plan-change-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/amit-singhal-at-google-will-your-computer-plan-change-your-life","title":{"rendered":"Amit Singhal (at Google): Will your computer plan change your life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amit Singhal (at Google): The Conversational Computer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/__K-suGTx2Q?list=PLRmS1rIxNmL3J1lzDSvAzgfYxTUCN67Bq\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This archive file was compiled from an interview conducted at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, 2013. In the discussion, Amit Singhal, a key figure in the evolution of Google\u2019s search engine, broadly outlined the significant hurdles that stood in the way of achieving one of his long-held dreams \u2014 creating a true \u2018conversational\u2019 search engine. He also sketched out a vision of how the initial versions of such a system would, and also importantly, would not attempt to assist the individuals that it interacted with.<\/p>\n<p>Though the vision was by design more limited and focused than a system capable of passing the famous Turing test, it nonetheless raised stimulating questions about the future relationships of humans and their \u2018artificial\u2019 assistants.<\/p>\n<p>More about Amit Singhal:<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia:<br \/> en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amit_Singhal<\/p>\n<p>Google Search:<br \/> en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This archive file was compiled from an interview conducted at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, 2013. In the discussion, Amit Singhal, a key figure in the evolution of Google\u2019s search engine, broadly outlined the significant hurdles that stood in the way of achieving one of his long-held dreams \u2014 creating a true \u2018conversational\u2019 search [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1500,6,224],"tags":[99,1723,1217,268,1724,1725,2133,1727,2168,1729,2149,1730,672,222,251],"class_list":["post-12767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifeboat","category-posthumanism","category-robotics-ai","category-science","tag-ai","tag-amit-singhal","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-computers","tag-conversational-computer","tag-featured-blogs","tag-futurism","tag-google-search","tag-innovation","tag-search-engine","tag-singularity","tag-smart-technology","tag-star-trek","tag-technology","tag-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}