geni wrote:
On 12 April 2010 01:31, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last
decade? This is what
they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia.
http://www.cpedia.com/
It's like Wikipedia read by Mark V. Shaney.
- d.
Well in theory an automated system that created articles on order
would be a reasonable replacement for wikipedia. Unfortunately 1)This
won't be possible until we crack the natural language processing
problem and 2) even with existing technology Cuil's attempt is just
horrifically bad.
For If whatever is left of the powerset team at microsoft tried
something similar I would expect results to be better if still fairly
useless.
Agreed. Given that powerset seems to be out of
the game indefinitely, the current target to beat
is likely Wolfram|Alpha, and clearly cpedia -- or
whatever it is officially called -- doesn't come
within the proverbial country mile of being even
a contender, at least so far.
Someday something will come down the pike, it
is only a matter of time. And when it does, we
really will have "A Logic Called Joe" (or "Mike"
if you prefer Heinlein), but I for one won't be
holding my breath.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen