Future Web Trends: Artificial Intelligence
Possibly the ultimate Next Big Thing in the history of computing, AI has been the dream of computer scientists since 1950 – when Alan Turing introduced the Turing test to test a machine’s capability to participate in human-like conversation.
In the context of the Web, AI means making intelligent machines. In that sense, it has some things in common with the Semantic Web vision.
We’ve only begun to scratch the surface of AI on the Web. Amazon.com has attempted to introduce aspects of AI with Mechanical Turk, their task management service.
It enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.
Nevertheless, AI has a lot of promise on the Web. AI techniques are being used in “search 2.0″ companies like Hakia and Powerset.
Numenta is an exciting new company by tech legend Jeff Hawkins, which is attempting to build a new, brain-like computing paradigm – with neural networks and cellular automata.
In english this means that Numenta is trying to enable computers to tackle problems that come easy to us humans, like recognizing faces or seeing patterns in music.
But since computers are much faster than humans when it comes to computation, we hope that new frontiers will be broken – enabling us to solve the problems that were unreachable before.
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Phillip Shoemaker on September 12th, 2007 8:21 am
I agree that the Numenta-technology is poised to help solve incredible problems that existing technologies aren’t good at. More importantly, and in light of this blog, there are so many business opportunities presenting themselves around the Numenta HTM technology: I envision people creating the vision system building blocks for resale, people specializing in providing professional services, training, data sets, and more. This is going to be a very large business in a few years, and the HTM-related economy is going to be huge!
PHP Tutorials on September 14th, 2007 7:28 pm
I can’t remember but i read an article on AI on net at BBC. AI is extensively used in game industry. You wonder what and where AI could be used when it comes to web applications? nice article. thanks
seo techniques on April 15th, 2008 5:09 am
i have some basic knowledge of afficliate marketing but cant say more about it. i m sure it will be more useful for product based company and small website owner to earn money.
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