Engineers unable to understand the working of Google's Search AI
Seems like Google's RankBrain AI is a Skynet in making because even the engineers working on it are unable to understand it. According to Paul Haahr, one of the company's top engineers working on the Google Search team said that Google's new RankBrain AI engine is actually more complex than thought before, and even some of Google's own staff is clueless how it is exactly working. The statement was made by Haahr at SMX West, a search marketing conference that was scheduled in San Jose, California between March 1 and 3. Google understands how RankBrain works but not really what it is doing. Haahr was responding to queries about Google's search products in general during the event's keynote, when someone questioned him about the company's latest addition, the RankBrain AI. The engineer's answer, as Barry Schwartz, SERoundtable reporter, and many other conference attendants confirmed on Twitter, was that many of Google's own engineers don't quite fully understand how the new RankBrain algorithm works. Google started working on RankBrain, an artificial intelligence system, during the past years under the supervision of top engineer John Giannandrea, an AI expert.
Apr-18-2016, 15:55:25 GMT
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