Article: The intelligent cloud

This was going to be just a link in my Up in the Clouds post, where I wrote:

Google’s ultimate aim to meld the search engine with the human brain to create a new artificial intelligence (that was news to me…).

But this article from the Google blog gives us an idea about how Google sees the future. John Battelle has this to say, and whether you think this is very scary or just the coming of the next stage of the internet, we are very close to the petabyte age.