This contraption is a Serendipity Engine, a machine that visualises how serendipity works. The idea struck social psychologist Aleks Krotoski when Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt claimed ...

"Think of it as a serendipity engine," he said, a reference to the company's nearly ubiquitous Internet search engine. He predicted that this would be one of many "new services that make your life ...

Just this approach towards learning about the world can turn a person into a serendipity engine which will act like an endless stream of ideas. Whether to act on all these ideas or not is debatable.

He called this the “Serendipity Engine”. The common thread Schmidt kept pounding home was the importance of mobile in the future of computing. Mobile search traffic is up 50 percent in the ...

Now, let’s take this discussion a step further. What if these hallucinations could be harnessed to create a serendipity engine? An AI that doesn’t merely predict the next word but facilitates ...

What Schmidt didn’t say was how Google would build its serendipity engine. Given Google’s penchant for leveraging algorithmic search, we can logically assume these results will be auto ...