Emerging Tech: July 2006 Archives
An interesting article on a dispute between Tim Berners-Lee and a Google exec Peter Norvig on artificial intelligence and the semantic web. Berners-Lee consistently argues for the adoption of AI-readable meta in internet-published content. I tend to agree with him — for the most part. Computers need help in understanding content in context. Norvig raised the issue of data-integrity, worrying that deception is immenent — the intentional misuse of the aforementioned computer-readable meta-tags. Of course, Norvig is correct in his fears. But this isn't new. The issue needs to be solved with [human] peer-review, filtering, and intelligent analysis from the actual artificial intelligence.
