If Google were to work on AGI in secret, I’m pretty sure that somebody in power there would want to make sure it was friendly. Peter Norvig, for example, talks about AI friendliness in the third edition of AI: A modern approach, and he has a link to the SIAI on his home page.
Personally, I doubt that they’e working on AGI yet. They’re getting a lot of mileage out of statistical approaches and clever tricks; AGI research would be a lot of work for very uncertain benefit.
If Google were to work on AGI in secret, I’m pretty sure that somebody in power there would want to make sure it was friendly. Peter Norvig, for example, talks about AI friendliness in the third edition of AI: A modern approach, and he has a link to the SIAI on his home page.
Personally, I doubt that they’e working on AGI yet. They’re getting a lot of mileage out of statistical approaches and clever tricks; AGI research would be a lot of work for very uncertain benefit.
Google has one employee working (sometimes) on AGI.
http://research.google.com/pubs/author37920.html
It’s comforting, friendliness-wise, that one of his papers cites “personal communication with Steve Rayhawk.”