They have a range of other intelligence-requiring applications: translate, search, goggles, street view, speech recognition.
They have expressed their AI ambitions plainly in the past:
We have some people at Google who are really trying to build artificial intelligence and do it on a large scale.
...however, “Google’s AGI team” is interesting phrasing. It probably refers to Google Research.
Moshe Looks has worked for Google Research since 2007, goes to the AGI conferences—e.g. see here—and was once described as a SIAI “scientific advisor” on their blog—the most probable source of this tale, IMO.
Google is a major machine intelligence company.
At least one of their existing products aims pretty directly at general-purpose intelligence.
They have a range of other intelligence-requiring applications: translate, search, goggles, street view, speech recognition.
They have expressed their AI ambitions plainly in the past:
...however, “Google’s AGI team” is interesting phrasing. It probably refers to Google Research.
Moshe Looks has worked for Google Research since 2007, goes to the AGI conferences—e.g. see here—and was once described as a SIAI “scientific advisor” on their blog—the most probable source of this tale, IMO.
Google Research certainly has some interesting publications in machine intelligence and machine learning.