Dave,
Thanks for the link. Seems like it gives Matt the right to say to the world "I told you so." I wonder if OpenCog could get involved in this, or something like this, in a productive way. Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: David Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] On 12/5/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Centralized search is limited to a few big players that can keep a copy of the Internet on their servers. Google is certainly useful, but imagine if it searched a space 1000 times larger and if posts were instantly added to its index, without having to wait days for its spider to find them. Imagine your post going to persistent queries posted days earlier. Imagine your queries being answered by real human beings in addition to other peers. I probably won't be the one writing this program, but where there is a need, I expect it will happen. Wikia, the company run by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is tackling the Internet-scale distributed search problem - http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Atlas Connecting to related threads (some recent, some not-so-recent), the Grub distributed crawler ( http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Grub ) is intended to be one of many plug-in Atlas Factories. A development goal for Grub is to enhance it with a NL toolkit (e.g. the soon-to-be-released RelEx), so it can do more than parse simple keywords and calculate statistical word relationships. -dave _____ This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/? <http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&;> & ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=72270417-205c60
