Data Mining.
Have you ever thought of data mining as an extension of the human subconscious? That's exactly what it is, and it's that acceleration of thought which brings the Singularity closer every day.
The Guardian has an interesting article about the National Centre for Text Mining, a British endeavor to assist with the increasing overload of information available to the scientific community.
How long will it be before data mining is an artificially occurring subroutine of our consciousness adding perfectly controlled artificial intelligence to the vast array of psychological tools at our disposal? Will it even be necessary? Perhaps we will instead learn to control our own naturally existing data mining utilities, and apply them to digitally assimilated data without the requirement of reading with comprehension...
One way or another, the ability to filter massive volumes of information on a personal level will become a crucial step in the process of Singularity.
The Guardian has an interesting article about the National Centre for Text Mining, a British endeavor to assist with the increasing overload of information available to the scientific community.
How long will it be before data mining is an artificially occurring subroutine of our consciousness adding perfectly controlled artificial intelligence to the vast array of psychological tools at our disposal? Will it even be necessary? Perhaps we will instead learn to control our own naturally existing data mining utilities, and apply them to digitally assimilated data without the requirement of reading with comprehension...
One way or another, the ability to filter massive volumes of information on a personal level will become a crucial step in the process of Singularity.
posted by Q. at 4:43:00 AM
2 Comments:
hm. I'll post another blog on this subject, but for now, this should help a bit: Datamining is basically the idea of using computers to sort through massive amounts of information to find the really usefull stuff.
While it is true that datamining provides the corporate world with a lot of behavioral information on us, there is an upside to the idea of datamining as well. Datamining also allows us to extract useful scientific information from the exponentially expanding body of data that is being generated by biologists, neuroscientists and nanotechnologists today.
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