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Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Jayce et les Conquérants de la lumière
1985 · TV series · 20 min episodes · 1 season
Created by J. Michael Straczynski, Jean Chalopin
KidsAnimationScience FictionFantasyActionAdventure
The Lightning League drives white and silver vehicles with assorted weaponry, and are led by a teenager named Jayce. The villains are organic green vegetable-based creatures called the Monster Minds, who tend to take the shape of black and green vehicles. They travel via large green organic vines which can grow in and across interstellar space, and sprout seeds that rapidly grow into further Monster Minds. They are led by Saw Boss.
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Tangent, but a cartoon I immensely enjoyed as a young kid popped up recently on my YouTube feed - Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. That day I learned JMS wrote the story and it too featured an overarching story that backed the otherwise “episode of the week” format.
I don't think people realize how much better Google search has gotten over the years. We tend to remember the annoyances or failures, and not remember all of the successes that are second nature to us.
Consider vague long tail queries. Google knocks these out of the park compared to Bing, DDG or others. Let's say there's some old movie you vaguely remember details about:
"movie where evil is in microwave" => Google "Time Bandits". Bing: Nada. DDG: Nada
"dystopian movie with a motorcycle named einstein" => Google "Warrior of the Lost World" Bing: wrong, DDG: wrong
"song about cocaine in california" => Google: Hotel California, Bing, DDG: bottom of page
"star trek episode where spock is possessed" => Google: Return to Tomorrow, Bing/DDG: Spock's Brain (wrong), but nice try"
"previous name of java language" => Google: link to Oak as second item, Bing/DDG: worse result (must click through links to find answer)
"cartoon about plants and a kid with a ring" => Google: Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Bing/DDG: Nope
"tv show with scientist named blackwood" => This one is EASY, Google: War of the Worlds, Bing/DDG: Nope
"guy who tried to bomb parliament" => Google: Direct Answer, Others: links
"tv show with alien who has necklace powered by sun" => Google: 1st result, The Phoenix, Others: 3rd or lower
"cartoon car that has auto jacks" => Google: Speed Racer 2nd result, Others: nope
"flying characters similar to thundercats" => Google: Silverhawks, Others: nope
"movie with guy who owns last car" => Google: The Last Race, Others: nope
"commodore 64 game where alien knocks on window" => Google: Rescue on Fractalus, Others: nope
"toy where you program trailer to dump" => Google: Big Trak, Others: nope
You can play this game all day, trying to come up with the vaguest possible query about old things you remember bits and pieces of from decades ago, and I'm often amazed at how vague and obtuse I can get. Google does these queries much better than others. Yes, it fails a lot too, but the instances where it fails, and others succeed are much more rare than the instances where it succeeds and others fail.
But Google isn't an AI yet. And what Larry is speaking about is achieving Star Trek: a computer that can read the meaning of words, understand, rather than just index characters.