[Sigia-l] GoogleNews

Victor Lombardi victorlombardi at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 24 10:24:25 EDT 2002


RE>"This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human
editors..."

But, who created the algorithms?

I think IAs will increasing need to create algorithms, i.e. we'll design 
systems rather than design instances. We'll need to think about the reasons 
why we made a design decision and put that reasoning into algorithmic 
format for the computers to replicate.

At 9/24/2002 -0400 06:01 AM, Listera wrote:
>Perhaps the most telling aspect of the (fairly) new/beta Google News for IAs
>is the the last two lines at the very bottom:
>
>"This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human
>editors.
>No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page."
>
><http://news.google.com/>
>
>;-)
>
>Best,
>
>Ziya
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