Sask Interactive….The web after 20 years; a convergence or divergence of ideas?

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Chris Brooks and Scott Bateman

Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Web 2.0

• Smart agents….software which autonomously interacts with its environment
• Intelligent agents can adapt and learn from each other by observing their environment and interacting  (example…Clippy…not a very good one)
• Semantic Web hasn’t fully developed and is limited to niche areas not used broadly
• Web 0….Few to Many
• Web 1.0 Many to Everybody
• Web 2.0 Everybody to Everybody
• While these ideas were happening in academia, a parallel movement was happening called Web 2.0
• AJAX is allowing us to use our web browsers like applications
• Refers to blogs as online diaries…(Alan are you listening?)
• Talks about the Long Tail
• Importance of diversity in environments and products
• Amazon use of suggested products
• Shows the Kansas State video The Machine is Us
• Limitations of Web 2.0…millions of blogs to sort through
• Refining tags
• AI isn’t ready to automate many of these features but is necessary to deal with the larger set of data
• Semantic Web uses machines…Web 2.0 uses people…NEED CONVERGENCE

Thoughts:  Interesting ideas…important theories to consider

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