Web 2.0
I really dug this video on web 2.0 (thanks Erin!) It was a clever overview of Web 2.0 in less than 5 minutes.
Since reading The Singularity Is Near (and then later Accelerando), I’ve been thinking about artificial intelligence. I was intrigued by one of final messages of the clip about teaching the machine and neural networks.
Though there have been many advances in artificial intelligence, the method of creation of a human-equivalent intelligence is still very much in debate. Do we design it through a top down approach? Do we use Darwinist natural selection of neural networks in iterative simulated competition to evolve it over time? Or, as I think the video hints at, does it emerge naturally over time through our own collective contributions in linking, tagging, generating, and using content?