Okay, so it's pretty clear that the AGI community needs a little more than an email-list and forum combination... That is if we want to be a little more than a side show. AGI needs a coherent case, a community center, and a unified data source to develop infrastructure to get money, support, etc. Every AGI website needs be turned into a human-power, machine-accelerated, collective knowledge system supporting an underlying unified data source/content repository back-end. In other words, a services architecture that allows for all of our apps to connect together and share one common data store.
On the money side, this will allow stunning effectiveness in the use of randomized, controlled experiments able to isolate cause and effect in public activities, microtargeting: algorithms weighing as many as 1,000 different personal variables to generate probabilities predicting whether individual citizens will donate, etc. For example, the Obama campaign used experimental methods to test nearly all of its online communications, randomizing the design of Web pages, the timing of text message blasts, and the language of email solicitations to measure their relative effectiveness. Any time you received an email from the Obama campaign, it had been tested on 18 smaller groups and the response rates had been gauged. The worst-performing letters did only 15 -20 percent of what the best-performing emails could deliver. So if a good performer could do $2.5 million, a poor performer might only net $500,000. Does anyone know how much $$$ AGI research currently receives? By building our web frameworks with a shared content repository in mind, we'll unified what know on a scale that's never been seen before. The resulting platform will give us tools that help "force-multiply" volunteers, researchers, etc, giving them organizational and communication tools that will make them even more effective. On the research side, we’ll be able to better see relationships between concepts, provide information in different languages, use information to automatically create overviews of data (like lists or charts), or answer language-based questions that can hardly be answered automatically today. We’ll be able to merge all references to a concept onto a single topic and you will have access to all the information the systems knows about the concept in one place. And that’s just the beginning. On the technology side, the AGI portal will be is a true “Web of Data” platform that will publish and interlink web data according to the “Linked Data” principles developed by Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web). The resulting structured data will allow not only humans to understand what's happening, but computers too. Which is truly exciting. Currently I'm working on a component http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/wiki/API_Rationale to plug into the content repository.... A tech architecture of what I'm working on would look something like this: a) web editing tool: The web editing tool provides an interface for managing contents of the web pages. This includes features like rich text editing, workflows and image handling i.e. http://aloha-editor.org/ b) web framework: responsible of matching URL requests to particular content and generating corresponding web pages. This could be Drupal, Flow3, Django, CodeIgniter, Midgard MVC, or something similar. c) content repository: A content repository would manage content models and how to store them. This could be something like JCR, PHPCR, CouchDB or Midgard2. Seriously, AGI reseach = cancer, AIDS, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Nanotechnology and clean energy reseach all in one. Yet, there is no money? ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
