LONGECITY

Here is the link to an opinion piece I ran across on five reasons (that conspicuously look like six reasons) why Google will be the first to develop AI.

Here is the Digg post about it with some rather uninformed comments. They use the term "real AI" to mean human level intelligence. (I assume)

Google has money and smart people, but the inertia to improve search algorithms and gadgets rather than re-focusing on general intelligence is likely to remain.

One can get a feel by reading their mission... http://www.google.com/corporate/
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. ...which says nothing about creating a thinking machine.

Rather, it's more likely that Google eventually tries to purchase an AI company.

That would work out well for you guys (financially) if they decided to buy Novamente.

You could retire to a small island somewhere, Bruce. [sfty]

We will never sell more than 49.9999% of Novamente

Here's my blog post on the topic.

Interesting perspective in your blog post, Michael. [thumb]

The original opinion piece reminds me of this article from awhile back. (Scenario 4 being the most interesting, discussed in this post)

I also found, while searching around, this video of a possible implementation of "Google Brain".