Google absorbs Oxford Uni boffins in artificial intelligence boost quest

Google has hired seven academics from Oxford University and signed partnerships with the engineering and computer science facilities to help it develop its DeepMind artificial intelligence system. "We are thrilled to welcome these extremely talented machine learning researchers to the Google DeepMind team and are excited about …

[Robert Helpmann??]

Turing-Turrets Test

I wonder if they will be successful enough to pass the Turing test. If they are, will Google add in "noise" to avoid confusing the more gullible of their users in much the same way Domino's needed to add noise to its pizza delivery scooters to prevent others on the road from missing them for their silence. They should be careful, too. If they make it too human-like, their AI might start redirecting people to LMGFY.