Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says in ten years computers will be able to know your intent. At right, a popular model designed for Internet porn surfers prepares for use.
In the next 10 years, computers as flexible as a sheet of paper will replace notepads and newspapers, while others will be able to intuit what you're trying to find online, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Friday to a group of Charlotte technology workers.
When you type the word “Chicago” into a search engine, it will be able to determine whether you meant the city, the band or the musical based on your Internet history.
Confessions involving 'impure thoughts' will skyrocket.
Posted by: ptg | Friday, July 10, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Ballmer needs to step away from the crack pipe. Minsky was promising this kinda stuff for the past 40 years, and it was always just 10 years away.
The "flexible" thing I'll accept, although not in a 10 year time frame, because I'm working on some stuff that could be eventually used for that sort of purpose (although I'm not going in that direction currently).
Any sort of search engine IA that tries to guess what you want, other than a quick flip through say your last "X" number of cache entries is going to produce some pretty weird results.
Posted by: PA | Friday, July 10, 2009 at 10:27 PM
"When you type the word “Chicago” into a search engine, it will be able to determine whether you meant the city, the band or the musical based on your Internet history."
wow. hate when that happens. fortunately, I understand how to use google.
This is just another msft scam. I will give them credit for going after google's market with bing. Acompany worth billions based on a search algorithim? what does google do when someone improves it?
as far as msft being able to improve something, I learned my lesson.
their xboxes actually worked. so they upgrade to xbox 360...appropriate name change. It will spend 360 days of the year getting repaired.
won't even bother with windows v. vista.
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Posted by: mark l. | Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 03:23 AM
If it's searched on "bing" you'll probably get the glorious history of Windows 95 (chicago).
Posted by: sh | Monday, July 13, 2009 at 01:17 AM