readwriteweb.com— One academic warns that it might and says we need to pay attention to it. As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from?
Aug 7, 2008View in Crawl 4
From the article--"It means that as the language we use to communicate meaning to machines develops, we'd better watch out who is building it and what perspectives they take into consideration. Unconsidered assumptions could lead to a real disconnect between the meaning that machines know of the world and they way that millions of other people experience it."We have struggled with this for a long time and we really don't have the ability to correctly encode the prespectives and assumptions in a meaningful way. Causality and temperoal relationships are still very weak as well.
deeptextAug 7, 2008
Great blog and great entry. A long sequence of important comments on the original blog.
fbyrumSep 22, 2008
From the article--"It means that as the language we use to communicate meaning to machines develops, we'd better watch out who is building it and what perspectives they take into consideration. Unconsidered assumptions could lead to a real disconnect between the meaning that machines know of the world and they way that millions of other people experience it."We have struggled with this for a long time and we really don't have the ability to correctly encode the prespectives and assumptions in a meaningful way. Causality and temperoal relationships are still very weak as well.