{"id":101551,"date":"2009-12-17T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-4767253938548863239"},"modified":"2009-12-17T22:36:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:36:37","slug":"googles-iq-boost-is-only-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/101551","title":{"rendered":"Google’s IQ boost is only beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"
AltaVista<\/a> was really pretty useful (it’s still around<\/a> – owned by Yahoo! now), but the first time I used Google, in early 1999, I knew AltaVista was histor<\/a>y.<\/div>\n
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It’s been almost 11 years since that day, and my brain’s been following the usual middle aged fail. On the other hand, Google keeps getting smarter<\/a>. So my brain + Google isn’t doing as badly as my brain alone.<\/div>\n
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Take yesterday, for example. I asked Google for help with an esoteric Excel problem, and it told me how to use matrix operations to sum a range of inverted numbers<\/a>. I didn’t even know Excel had<\/i> matrix operators.<\/div>\n
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It took minutes to answer that problem, and to acquire a new set of skills. There’s no way I could have answered the problem 10 years ago.<\/div>\n
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Even though Google has its weaknesses<\/a> (see also<\/a>), it’s only begun to get smart. Imagine what search will be like in 10 years.<\/div>\n
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Vinge’s Rainbow’s End<\/a> classroom is feeling familiar, even as more of my brain is outsourced to the House of Google.<\/div>\n
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See also:<\/div>\n
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