- From: Renato Golin <renato@ebi.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:24:48 +0000
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Manuel Vila wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would be very happy to get some feedback about the concept of "Object > Oriented Web" as I just outlined here: > > http://blog.kindalab.com/2007/11/02/the-object-oriented-web/ > > Feel free to send your comments either here or on my blog. Hi Manuel, Once I felt very close to what you say in your post, but than reading the many high-quality posts in this mailing list I've changed completely my opinion about it. Although Andreas got a bit too deterministic in his reply he shares the thoughts of many (not me) and it was by understanding their POV I've changed my mind from something surrealistically simplistic as you state in your post to something more feasible. First, I do believe that machines can talk to each other without any human interaction and it's not that hard, but won't also be human-like. Second, the whole artificial intelligence movement is too focused in simulating human behaviour that they forget that a program doesn't need to be human to be intelligent. And last, there are some basic things like instincts and collective unconscious that can be created new for machines and don't have to be copied from our experience. But that's a discussion for a completely different mailing list. The role of RDF in this "revolution" we're all anxiously waiting on AI can be more important than we know today and that's the feeling of many people I talk to, but still it's a gut-feeling rather than something concrete. The concrete about RDF is exactly what Andreas said: organize the data so we can retrieve it more efficiently. Learning from that data is far from our reach with today's technology and it's maybe not even the right time to think about it as it'll put too much expectations on the semantic technology that won't necessarily happen soon. Unfortunately, people with money don't like to wait. We shouldn't tell them what they can do next decade as they'll want it for next year. My 2 pence... cheers, --renato
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