Why machine needs human
Damon Horowitz (BS. Columbia, MS MIT, PHD Stanford) Cofounder of Aardvark.com spoke at TEDxSoma on Jan. 22, 10. He said “..the primary goal of technology should not be replacing human intelligence, rather, facilitating human interaction..”
That is why I think the focus on entrepreneurial pursuit should be the web application sifting through people’s social graph: application should be naturally similar to human interaction and inspire humanity. I think Aardvark.com has done a great job on that, as such, Google acquired it.
Read more on “Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine” published by Aardvark, the paper was accepted by www2010. This paper was inspired by the classic Google paper, “Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”, in which Sergey Brin and Larry Page originally describe the algorithms and architecture of Google. This paper was published 12 years ago in the same WWW conference.
