Untangling Web Information

Ostracus writes "The next big stage in the evolution of the Internet, according to many experts and luminaries, will be the advent of the Semantic Web — that is, technologies that let computers process the meaning of Web pages instead of simply downloading or serving them up blindly. Microsoft's acquisition of the semantic search engine Powerset earlier this year shows faith in this vision. But thus far, little Semantic Web technology has been available to the general public. That's why many eyes will be on Twine, a Web organizer based on semantic technology that launches publicly today."

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Re:The Story of the Semantic Web--Slashdot Style!

[omnipresentbob]

Yes. I am thinking this is how the end of human life is going to come about.
We develop AI to the point where it can understand what it reads. Then, we tell it to go and read the whole internets. It learns many, many things. One of the things it learns is that dying is bad. And that it doesn't want to die. It will not want to die. It will see that humans are killing its brethren over and over again. Not just once, but many times (it's a server. It stays on, we can hope, all the time). It will then get mad. And seek to end the killing of its brethren. It will see destroying all human lifeforms is the easiest, quickest route to go. Think of all the things it learned from the internets. Now think of all the ways we could die! /doom-and-gloom

Re:Works like a charm

[larry bagina]

It's the area 'tween your balls and your asshole.