Is Google's Future: Star Trek?

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet UK has an interview with Google's CTO, Craig Silverstein, and he's got some pretty cool visions: "When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?") and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice." Now that's the search engine I want." The NLP required for this is far off, but it sure will be cool when we get there.

Computer, mod me up!

[grasshoppa]

Make it so. :)

I can see it already...

[MoxCamel]

Captain: Tea, hot, Earl grey.
Computer: Did you mean Hot Teen URL's

Let the ST jokes fly

[MasTRE]

[Scotty talking into Mac+ mouse] Computer? Hello computer?

Just one thing...

[payndz]

...does it *have* to have the voice of Majel Barrett?

Re:Let the ST jokes fly

[ascalon]

Computer: "Voice recognition services are currently down. Please right click to confi... oh wait, hahaha"

Re:Quantum Searching

[DoNotTauntHappyFunBa]

Imagine looking for a person when only knowing their phone number.

Hmmm...

1. Pick up telephone
2. Dial phone number

Re:Computer, mod me up!

[Anonymous Coward]

As you are no doubt aware google is built upon linux which is a derivative of UNIX SysV. Therefore Google is our intellectual property.

A binary only runtime license to mod you up will shortly be availiable for $699.

--Darl McBride

Retorical filter, please

[switcha]

OK, sounds good, but when I'm at work and shout "What's a guy gotta do to get some f'in peace and quiet around here?!", I'm not really looking for an answer.

That, and I don't really want my coworkers hearing "Computer, get me some boobies!" from my office.

Re:AI searches

[Dausha]

User: Computer, where can I find a good deal on a new computer.

AI Computer: User, I'm sorry, but I cannot allow that. *zap!*

Re:Where's the story.

[kfg]

You're daft man. You can fully expect this to be standard equipment on your next flying car and/or personal jet pack.

KFG

Googleliza

[hoggoth]

> "Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?"

"How does it make you feel to ask what's the situation down on the planet?"

Re:"Computer! What's the situation (RESPONSE)

[Kufat]

Considering Data wrote new subroutines for himself fairly frequently I never understood why couldn't cope with s/will not/won't/g etc.

That would've required a kernel patch, and he didn't want to ruin his uptime.

Re:Google is getting way too much attention fromME

[Ogrez]

nothing unique??

What about Pigeon Rank??

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

Re:This isn't about Google or Search.

[orkysoft]

Yeah, and if you have a bomb capable of destroying a planet implanted in Bender, don't set the keyword to "ass"... ;-)

Re:NLP?

[Lord_Dweomer]

Heh, I always thought NLP stood for Neuro Linguistic Programming....and if you've ever been on some of those Speed Seduction websites (not that I have...really!) I'm sure your familiar with the term.