The best application of AI, I can think of to enhance my web experience would be for an AI to be able to recommend new pages that would be interesting to me based on other pages I have viewed or based on a profile I filled out. The system could create a new section in my bookmarks called "Recommended Sites" as I surfed the system would automatically track the sites I visit and determine what my interests are. It would then search the web for other pages that fit my interest profile and add them to my bookmark file. It would also alert me to new sites with a pop up window when it finds a particularly relevant page. For example if I were looking to purchase a new computer and I began visiting site for DELL, COMPAQ etc. the system would realize I was interested in purchasing a computer. If it could not determine what price or specification I had in mind the AI could ask me a few questions to completely specify my request. Then it would look for computers meeting my specifications all over the web (auction site, small vendors etc.). When it found a number of sites it would then format the list of computers by price and features and then pop up a window allowing me to jump to the site to obtain more information or purchase. I understand this is a very hard project. The AI would need to have the ability to make assumptions and inferences based on a built in real world knowledge base (like CYC). But all of AI is hard; if it were easy everyone would do it. Good Luck
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The best application of AI, I can think of to enhance my web experience would be for an AI to be able to recommend new pages that would be interesting to me based on other pages I have viewed or based on a profile I filled out. The system could create a new section in my bookmarks called "Recommended Sites" as I surfed the system would automatically track the sites I visit and determine what my interests are. It would then search the web for other pages that fit my interest profile and add them to my bookmark file. It would also alert me to new sites with a pop up window when it finds a particularly relevant page. For example if I were looking to purchase a new computer and I began visiting site for DELL, COMPAQ etc. the system would realize I was interested in purchasing a computer. If it could not determine what price or specification I had in mind the AI could ask me a few questions to completely specify my request. Then it would look for computers meeting my specifications all over the web (auction site, small vendors etc.). When it found a number of sites it would then format the list of computers by price and features and then pop up a window allowing me to jump to the site to obtain more information or purchase. I understand this is a very hard project. The AI would need to have the ability to make assumptions and inferences based on a built in real world knowledge base (like CYC). But all of AI is hard; if it were easy everyone would do it. Good Luck