On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:54 PM, John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> wrote:
> There would also need to be a protocol to establish trust based on knowledge 
> right? If I'm a an expert for example in some species of ant (say Cephalotes 
> specularis) there would need to be informational transactions to query and 
> establish knowledge trust to a peer.

I would have to be able to detect that you're not sending me spam.
That requires some AI. I would gather responses from several sites and
give greater weight to those with high reputations like Wikipedia and
university websites. Then I would compare the responses and adjust
their rankings.

>> I am sure that if you tried to copy Google's index with millions of queries, 
>> they
>> would put a quick stop to that.
>>
>
> It might be difficult for them to detect. A network of geographically 
> dispersed machines intermittently performing queries across vast spans of 
> domain knowledge. Unless there is a pattern or signifier within the query 
> data how would they know? Unless they begin to force login at some point... 
> Look at in the reverse direction, we, the human system (from Google's 
> perspective) and external machines (Google) are performing intermittent 
> queries on us and taking a snapshot of the human index.

I suppose you could do it if you controlled a botnet. But even then
you might arouse suspicions and they start sending you CAPTCHAs to
solve. But that's another AI problem, right?

-- 
-- Matt Mahoney, [email protected]


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