Re:Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?
by taurine on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:33PM
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DARPA/IARPA now invests in search 2.0: Instead of asking it to retrieve stored information, you can instruct an agent/search bot to perform tasks for you.
For instance, one should be able to search for: "who is the leader of this IRC hacker group?" "where can heroine be bought on the deep web?" "Is there women trafficking going on behind that log-in wall?" and then an intelligent agent is dispatched, avoiding/crossing roadblocks, like log-in forms, and will eventually bring you the answer.
Other possible future research areas in information retrieval include being able to search for services ("Where is cheapest taxi service for current location?") and an integration with IOT.
For instance, one should be able to search for: "who is the leader of this IRC hacker group?" "where can heroine be bought on the deep web?" "Is there women trafficking going on behind that log-in wall?" and then an intelligent agent is dispatched, avoiding/crossing roadblocks, like log-in forms, and will eventually bring you the answer.
Coursera has more on the basics, like: https://www.coursera.org/learn/text-retrieval
OpenAI has more on the current happenings of creating more intelligent search bots: https://github.com/openai/universe
Other possible future research areas in information retrieval include being able to search for services ("Where is cheapest taxi service for current location?") and an integration with IOT.