Nice to see some progress from another front, it's encouraging. Difficult to say where it will go at this early stage but at the very least playing in IBM's backyard will certainly help his cause. I've said before that IBM is a classy operation so they at the very least can offer him solid business guidance if they work with him at arm's length.
Better yet if they partner, or merge, if Watson raises up Apodora (in the wilderness) the world might enter into a new age of understanding how to organize and interpret information. There are some extraordinary gems to discover if he succeeds in merging the world's dispersed knowledge. I didn't think I would see it in this incarnation -- the same capability of mimicking human consciousness, looks like this may be a small step in that direction. Actually I didn't think it would be possible at all. So I guess I need to adopt the motto of "never say never"! Still yet more, I wonder if this will become IBM's technology due to being developed while working there, that isn't clear in the article.
From the article:
One thing which I really liked about my algorithm is that it didn’t rely on my hand coding almost anything. The computer was able to infer that certain words were related.
Looks like he has found an artificial intelligence sweet spot -- mind boggling. So far, as far as I know, the only real progress on that front was held by IBM's Watson. Due to Google's short attention span driven by their monkey mind mentality they are light years away from that capability unless they buy it from someone else. But in this case I suspect it won't be for sale to the highest bidder.
Make haste slowly young man, your future looks bright.
