I see on the google blog that the mad scientists at google have been putting up videos of some internal presentations. They especially make a mention of this one. That's interesting, it looks like the things Aaron Swartz wrote about, Jeff Hawkin's ideas about AI and so on. It's really exciting.
I've been thinking about those things since I first read about them, it's so exciting. I have tried to think of hierarchical recognition algorithms and how to get them to work, but there's always something I can't figure out for myself, and so I've never sat down and coded a line of it. Not that I would have the time for that, really.
But this thing has been on my radar for a while, and knowing that google works on it really excites me. Perhaps we will see advanced machine translation, image recognition, speech to text and so on in our time?
I'm going to have a look at that talk.