[Intelligent Technology] Giving computers the ability to think in basically the same manner as we do will allow them to perform highly complex tasks, almost completely unattended. Whether or not the truer forms of thought, like abstraction, creativity, and reflection, are reproduced artificially, artificial intelligence would be of great advantage for helping people relate to technology, especially those who are not technically literate.
[The Speculist] Michael Anissimov writes that achieving Friendly AI is a serious proposition -- so serious, in fact, that we might ought to go ahead and pay somebody to do it.
[Intelligent Technology] Giving computers the ability to think in basically the same manner as we do will allow them to perform highly complex tasks, almost completely unattended. Whether or not the truer forms of thought, like abstraction, creativity, and reflection, are reproduced artificially, artificial intelligence would be of great advantage for helping people relate to technology, especially those who are not technically literate.
[The Speculist] Michael Anissimov writes that achieving Friendly AI is a serious proposition -- so serious, in fact, that we might ought to go ahead and pay somebody to do it.
[Velcro City Tourist Board] Online storage, writing on water, RFID cloning, exoplanet formation”¦ 1 - The Internet Is Your Next Hard Drive “New Web-based services don’t just store...
Keotag, multiple engine and service tag search and generator
[The News is NowPublic.com | NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] This fact is compounded by the large number of different tags and the way that they are used. For some order to appear in all this chaos, inheritance and classes of tags need to be established and standardized for it to work.
[Evolving Trends] Google exec challenges Berners-Lee The idea is that the Semantic Web will allow people to run AI-enabled P2P Search Engines that will collectively be more powerful than Google can ever be, which will relegate Google to just another source [...]'>Google dont like Web 3.0 [sic]
[Evolving Trends] The idea is that the Semantic Web will allow people to run AI-enabled P2P Search Engines that will collectively be more powerful than Google can ever be, which will relegate Google to just another source of information, especially as Wikipedia [not Google] is positioned to lead the creation of domain-specific ontologies, which are the foundation for machine-reasoning [about information] in the Semantic Web.
[Velcro City Tourist Board] I’m assuming most regular VCTB readers are familiar with the concept of the Singularity, but for those who aren’t, these pages may provide a useful primer. This was kicked off by a post by Brian Wang at AdvancedNanotechnology, where he addresses common fears of a post-singularitarian future.
[Evolving Trends] Web 3.0: the term “Web 3.0”³ is merely the dictionary word “Web” followed by the number “3”³, a decimal point and the number “0.” As such, it has no commercial significance. Its original use by myself to refer to the Semantic Web is intended to help crystalize and popularize the vision for the Semantic Web, which we owe to Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the Web and the originator of the Semantic Web concept.)
Marvin Minsky on Common Sense and Computers That Emote
[Chevilly1] McCarthy and four other participants in the 1956 project, including MIT's Marvin Minsky, are participating in this week's meeting, which focuses on AI's next 50 years.
Net Neutrality, Web 3.0 and the Move from “Dumb Search” to “Intelligent Findability”
[Evolving Trends] The FCC recently fined a North Carolina CLEC for doing that to Vonage. Telcos and Cable companies have been in a turf war ever since cable companies started offering Internet access.
[Evolving Trends] Upon very quick glance, the product linked to in Tim’s comment seems to be about people (or rather ”˜domain experts’) building the ontologies, rules, annotations, and domain query structures. The last three pieces I thought would be specified by the inference engine vendors but I believe that DBin let’s any person who qualifies as a domain expert add value!
[Evolving Trends] [All posts, with the exception of the Wikipedia 3.0 one, have very few diggs so it seems that they are out-performing digg] Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google? For Great Justice, Take Off Every Digg Web 2.0: Back to the Hunter Gatherer Society Self-Aware e-Society Who 2.0: [...]'>ViRAL Text
[Evolving Trends] /* (this post was last updated at 11:20am EST, July 9, ”˜06.) */ Towards a Self-Aware Society With the advent of the Internet, and more specifically the introduction of social paradigms into the ”˜net with P2P 2.0 and Web 2.0, is the time right to attempt to create a self-aware society? We do have the technology (P2P 2.0, Web 2.0) and the AI models (think: pattern recognizing neural networks) to make it work.
[Evolving Trends] Using this chess game metaphor, Web 2.0 is only the first half of the first step in evolution’s potential plan to ultimately make software smarter than man (and checkmate man with his own invention.) The first half of the first step is to make humans (as a ‘crowd’) dumber. This is being executed at evolution’s behest by the ”˜crowd’ and is given cover to continue by the false notion of the ”˜wisdom of crowds.’
Digg This! Double Dipping Long Tail = 55,000 hits in 36 Hours
[Evolving Trends] Experiment This is a follow-up to this previous article on digg, where I had experimented and succeeded in generating 45,000 visits to this blog in 48 hours (40,000 of which came from digg), using a bold but well-thought out vision of the future involving Wikipedia and Google and a title for the post that gave the impression that such vision has cataclysimic implications to Google (which may very well be the case in the future and not a mere fatnasy.) Since my previous article on digg I’ve found out that digg did not ban my IP address. They had deleted my account due to multiple submissions.
