This blog is not dedicated to Google, despite appearances

You read it here first.

Eventually, says Mr Saffo, ‚"they're trying to build the machine that will pass the Turing test‚"‚—in other words, an artificial intelligence that can pass as a human in written conversations. Wisely or not, Google wants to be a new sort of deus ex machina.

Stoned ramblings, eh Sherwin? Go back to designing e-cards or whatever the hell you do.