From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
benay@dara-abrams.com wrote:
>
> Thank you for organizing the list of reference materials. In an
> earlier discussion a few weeks ago, I raised the issue of the
> importance
> of organizing information in some coherent way as one of the most
> important features of a DKR. I think that you have hereby transformed
> an important component of our discussion into a DKR. In keeping with
> the dynamic part
> of the name, how can we maintain and update the contents? Can we
> automate that function or does that still require a human such
> as yourself to condense and organize?
>
While automation would be wonderful, I suspect that it requires
too much "thought" from computational machinery as we know it
today. I'm all in favor of the research which addresses those
issues. I expect that one day it will be responsible for the next
major advance in technological capability.
For the foreseeable future, though, my feeling is that *augmenting*
human intelligence, rather than automating it, is the way to go.
We should focus on building the tools that make the "cybrarian"
role I have been playing into a no sweat, piece of cake operation.
When that function *can* be automated, that will be awesome.
I don't expect to see that before 2050, but I'll be quite
happy to be surprised.
:_)
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