Artificial intelligence, Google and ...?

What is going to happen when all of the technologies converge: AI and Google's grip on search data and user historys, as well as forays into the controlling the direction of the internet?

For example, we have Google quietly buying up all the dark fibre-optic, some say to build an entire US broadband backbone; not to mention their newest offering, Googlenet, which is designed around the Wi-fi built into almost every laptop.

Then of course, there is Google and Nasa, ostensibly to provide computing power to Nasa and to have instant internet access to various Nasa projects but where whisperings exist of a worldwide satellite network to take advantage of the MIT linux-based $100 laptop.

Not forgetting the increasing pace of artificial intelligence, for example, ALICE, not to mention MIT (again).

So, my open ended question is what will happen when the technologies converge?

Will it be a case of AI becoming too smart, all on its own without anyone knowing until it's too late and using Google and MIT technology to do it? Does that make "Google" the number of the beast because it is the number of man?

 

All these concepts are whacked directly from the Grid, an AI interface. Tim Berners Lee talked about the Semantic Web and the Grid all interconnected, a too techie stuff. I guess Google is trying to implement that.

 

In english please...

 

You really are a moron, IamNed, aren't you?

 

Apparently so, Minstrel

Ok, the last line is a bit esoteric but I thought I'd throw that in to give any debate a bit of a spin.