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- Singularity Summit 2007: It's about the money
- AIs will compete with human for jobs, and more often get the job, according to Barney Pell, CEO of natural language search startup Powerset who was speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007. Unlike previous generations of AIs, which has more specialized functions covering a constrained domain, these...
- Tags: Consensus, Advanced General Intelligence, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: The Pell iCan brief
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Barney Pell, Brain, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber, human brain, Robot, Singularity
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligence
- Barney Pell has a passion for artificial intelligence AI and natural language processing NLP. His latest foray into those related fields is Powerset, a search engine that he hopes will challenge Google. He will be speaking, along with other experts in the AI field, at the Singularity Summit 2007, held...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Barney Pell, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Searching for human-like search
- Search is the motherload of the Internet today, as has been proven by Google. But it is still clunky and you end up with 149,000,000 results for "ajax" delivered in .05 seconds. At the Web 2.0 Summit, hakia showed a beta of its "meaning-based" search engine. According to the company,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, SEARCH, Barney Pell
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
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- Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught
- Microsoft's search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum. Will it be enough to close its yawning Google and even Yahoo search gap? Probably not, but Powerset could give Microsoft a little leapfrog ability...
- Tags: Google Inc., Natural Language, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Powerset brings semantic Wikipedia search to the iPhone
- May's Semantic Web Gang spoke with Powerset CTO Barney Pell in the week of their big launch last month. The company has followed up on that work, unveiling an iPhone-friendly version of their enhanced Wikipedia search. If you have an iPhone, take a look....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Wikipedia, Wiki, Semantic Web, Online Communications, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Barney Pell reports on Powerset's first week in discussion with the Semantic Web Gang
- Powerset CTO Barney Pell joins regular members of the Semantic Web Gang to share some of Powerset's experiences on the week since the launch of their public beta. Gang members also discuss Yahoo! SearchMonkey and next week's Semantic Technology Conference in this hour-long conversation recorded yesterday. by...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Powerset shows semantic search solution
- Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Why kill Google?
- Technology journalists from the mainstream media appear obsessed with locating some magic bullet with which to topple Google from its dominant position in today's Web, and use of violent language seems part and parcel of this obsession. Have Larry and Sergey done something to upset them? Did they all have...
- Tags: Google Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'
- At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- The Semantic wedge: Freebase, Powerset and Twine
- Danny Hillis Metaweb, Barney Pell Powerset and Nova Spivack Radar Networks shared the stage for a session on the semantic Web at the Web 2.0 Summit. All three are developing services that bake more intelligence into the Web. And, the companies are all well funded, hyped...
- Tags: Web, Data, Powerset, Twine, Freebase, Freebase Database, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Coming up: Web 2.0 Summit
- Tomorrow the star-studded Web 2.0 Summit gets underway. Co-hosted by John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly. I will be blogging from the event over the next few days and trying to figure out, once again, the import of Web 2.0. Thematically, the Summit will focus on the following questions. ...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Singularity Summit 2007: On the machinations of the beautiful mind
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Machine, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Steve Jurvetson: AI, nanotech and the future of the human species
- Steve Jurvetson is one of the featured speakers, among other luminaries, at the forthcoming Singularity Summit 2007 on advanced artificial intelligence AI. As a managing director at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he invested early in the first Web wave, with Hotmail, Interwoven and Kana, and...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Jurvetson, Nanotechnology, Singularity Summit 2007, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?
- The fate of the human species depends on AI Artificial Intelligence entities far smarter than us and who aren't prone to wipe out or enslave us. That is one of the topics to be discussed by luminaries in the AI world at the Singularity Summit 2007 held at the Palace...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Steve Omohundro: Building self-aware AI systems
- Steve Omohundro is president of Self-Aware Systems, which has a goal of developing an AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves. He will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on September 8-9. ...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Omohundro, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Coming up: Office 2.0, Singularity, Dreamforce, TechCrunch 40, Demo
- This week we get back into the tech conference season after the August hiatus, starting with the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Thursday and Friday. I will be moderating a panel on enterprise collaboration, which includes Scott Dietzen, president and CTO, Zimbra; Etay Gafni, director of the Technology...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Agenda, Conference, Office 2.0, Director, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- News to know: Vista SP1; Apple patch; Yahoo reorg
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Vista SP1 beta due in two weeks. Windows Server 2008 release to manufacturing delayed to Q1 2008. XP SP3: TechNet and MSDN subscribers to get beta in two weeks. Ed Bott: What you can expect in Vista SP1. ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligence
- Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligenceIt's interesting20 years ago AI researchers were saying that we will have machines that are more intelligent than human beings within 20 years. They are still saying the same thing, so at least they are consistent.Are we positive that this is a good idea?I'm all...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Artificial Intelligence
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
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