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    Quote Originally Posted by deuterio12 View Post
    That is how it was, but google search has been constantly updated to be quite a lot more complex and smarter since, again, a lot of people looking for ways to trick/cheat the system so the results they want will show up on top. The current version is a lot harder to manipulate by outside sources.
    Still not intelligent.

    Quote Originally Posted by deuterio12 View Post
    And it doesn't stop there. Algorithms are being used more and more to automate all sorts of tasks, like youtube itself can decide if a video infriges certain types of copyright and take it down.
    And if you think youtube's copyright detection algorithm is intelligent, then you really don't know anything about it.

    Quote Originally Posted by deuterio12 View Post
    There's also face recognition and all other sorts of patterns recognition. Jobs that normally only humans would do, only humans could do, but computers are taking over one after the other.
    Again, none of which show signs of intelligence.

    Quote Originally Posted by deuterio12 View Post
    One atom is basically nothing, a lot of atoms is basically anything. Scale is everything.
    No, it is not. Because we can point at a bird and note its intelligence, and correctly state that it is significantly more intelligent than the same number of atoms in, say, a rock.

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