Artificial Intelligence Could Help Searchers

[rogerd]

An interesting story at MSNBC dated June 10 - [msnbc.com...] - says that there is yet another massive effort to make the promise of artificial intelligence a reality. The latest attempt is called Cyc (pronounced "psych"), and has apparently been tested at Lycos to improve search results. Supposedly, it can help distinguish between categories of information. For example, it could question a searcher who types in "vets" to determine if he is looking for information about military veterans or animal doctors.

Apparently, the testing at Lycos ended when Terra bought them.

The history of AI seems to be littered with high expectations and limited success, at least in terms of use of AI in broad-based knowledge areas.

[msgraph]

The Lycos project sounds similar to what Ask is doing, and Outride, the company that Google purchased.

I wonder if one of them took on the testing task.

I can't wait to see some of the major search engines implement something like this.

An SE can hand out personal desktop apps, such as the toolbar, with a distributed computing systems. The user populates the AI DB with data collected from their question/search results.

[brotherhood of LAN]

I read that thread earlier today...totally forgot about it :) Its amazing how search is evolving...one day it will be called "found"

It seems the net has established the drawbacks of "pure logic" that a computer uses. I was amazed to read that the machine asked if it was human.

[Axacta]

>Artificial Intelligence Could Help Searchers<

Oooh...I see now! I thought it was the people doing the searching that needed the artificial intelligence - I figured maybe more of them would find my site. :)