Google is sponsoring an artificial-intelligence research group's work to develop advanced technologies for character recognition. The Ocropus open-source project's goals include developing a high-level, easy-to-use handwriting recognition system t...

''When AI happens, it's going to be a lot of computation, not so much ... clever algorithms,'' says Google co-founder Larry Page. Given the size of DNA (~600 MB compressed), the algorithms of the brain are ''probably not that complicated.'' ''To do the...