--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Steve Richfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I appears "obvious" to me that the first person who proposes the following > things together as a workable standard, will "own" the future 'web. This > because the world will enter the metadata faster than anyone is going to > build a "semantic web" or anything like it without these items. In short, > this is a sort of calculated retrograde step to get the goodies NOW and not > sometime in the future.
I disagree. Google has already figured out the "semantic web". People communicate in natural language 100 to 1000 times faster than in any artificial language. Time is money. > Perhaps in years to come, people can omit some/all of this metadata and > future AI interfaces to the web will still work, bit I simply see no reason > to wait until then to "smarten the 'web". Once the metadata is in place, any > bright programmer can implement the"Internet Singularity" by simply > populating his tables based on the metadata. What? According to http://www.dreliza.com/singularity.php the singularity already happened in 2001 "when Steve Richfield had his intelligence greatly increased..." :-) -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
