Re:Are Computers Still Getting Faster? [video]
by IanCal on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:52AM
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> Until we have algorithms that create algorithms, software rewriting itself and evolving based on higher goals, we won't see the promised star-trek-level personal assistants come to fruition.
There's a massive jump you're making here, I feel. From where we are to "computer, invent a new novel for me" there's a huge range of useful mid-points.
One level is just understanding more about human-written unstructured data to answer questions.
Another is to be better at sending commands to other humans.
This then gets you to the level of essentially free personal assistants for a wide range of general tasks. That would be valuable to a very large number of people.
There's a massive jump you're making here, I feel. From where we are to "computer, invent a new novel for me" there's a huge range of useful mid-points.
One level is just understanding more about human-written unstructured data to answer questions.
Another is to be better at sending commands to other humans.
Third there's linking these things up. Understanding where there are gaps in the knowledge, who might be able to fill them in and then asking them the right questions. I know there was work done in this area as part of CoSY back in 2004-2008 http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/ which was followed with http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogx/
This then gets you to the level of essentially free personal assistants for a wide range of general tasks. That would be valuable to a very large number of people.