http://www.realitycrunch.com/development/is-web20-our-planet-of-the-apes-moment/ A healthy dose of reality to the cheerleading and promoting Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:30:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.realitycrunch.com/development/is-web20-our-planet-of-the-apes-moment/#comment-31 RealityCrunch - Blogorrhea…Companyorrhea…Featureorreah…Where Will The Madness End? Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:42:29 +0000 http://www.realitycrunch.com/development/is-web20-our-planet-of-the-apes-moment/#comment-31 [...] were extolling the virtues of original thought, and suggesting that we had reached our own “Planet of the Apes” moment in technology.  Seems to be that Farber is trying to apply the same thinking to the [...] […] were extolling the virtues of original thought, and suggesting that we had reached our own “Planet of the Apes” moment in technology.  Seems to be that Farber is trying to apply the same thinking to the […]

]]> http://www.realitycrunch.com/development/is-web20-our-planet-of-the-apes-moment/#comment-20 Michael Wilson Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:09:22 +0000 http://www.realitycrunch.com/development/is-web20-our-planet-of-the-apes-moment/#comment-20 This actually bodes well for AI, once ultra-hyped, long neglected. Doing interesting things in real AI is very very hard. So much so that a huge number of advances in computer science were merely 'spin-offs' of AI research, much as the US space program spurred so many technological advances. Anyway, now that we've got decent amounts of memory and processing power and third-generation programming languages are more or less perfected, there's a lot of scope for progress in AI. This actually bodes well for AI, once ultra-hyped, long neglected. Doing interesting things in real AI is very very hard. So much so that a huge number of advances in computer science were merely ’spin-offs’ of AI research, much as the US space program spurred so many technological advances. Anyway, now that we’ve got decent amounts of memory and processing power and third-generation programming languages are more or less perfected, there’s a lot of scope for progress in AI.

]]> http://www.realitycrunch.com/development/is-web20-our-planet-of-the-apes-moment/#comment-13 Michael Henreckson Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:34:01 +0000 http://www.realitycrunch.com/development/is-web20-our-planet-of-the-apes-moment/#comment-13 Complacency is always dangerous. I'm not so sure that I agree that making development easy is a bad thing though. Sure you get lots of mediocre stuff, but you might also get a few awesome ideas from people who wouldn't have pursued development had it been more difficult. Complacency is always dangerous. I’m not so sure that I agree that making development easy is a bad thing though. Sure you get lots of mediocre stuff, but you might also get a few awesome ideas from people who wouldn’t have pursued development had it been more difficult.

]]> http://www.realitycrunch.com/development/is-web20-our-planet-of-the-apes-moment/#comment-12 ted dziuba Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:27:10 +0000 http://www.realitycrunch.com/development/is-web20-our-planet-of-the-apes-moment/#comment-12 tl;dr tl;dr

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