All Rise for The Singularity
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- lukus_W0
Okay, I'm being a little bit alarmist:
Basically, prediction is an expensive thing. It requires complex algorithms and generally, the algorithms don't scale well.
Things like recommendation engines, generally only exist on the largest of ecommerce sites. Only super large organisations like banks use prediction engines to recognise potential fraud.
But... now, Google have decided to release an API, which will potentially allow anyone to make use of prediction engines in their own projects.
Why would Google do this? Well, imo - it's probably a way that they can test out their algorithms. They get a lot of eager developers to put their code through training - and they get an indication of how successful it is -> allowing them to iteratively improve what they have.
Not quite the singularity yet - but, it's another step towards SkyNet and the domination of machine over man. Perhaps...?
- you know that everytime they release something, that means they already got a better enginegeorgesIII