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Monday, May 07, 2018

Foundational Knowledge Graphs

As humans we are always thinking about context, and intelligence in its basic sense needs to know the context about which it is reasoning.

Why Knowledge Graphs Are Foundational to Artificial Intelligence   By Jim Webber in Datanami

AI is poised to drive the next wave of technological disruption across industries. Like previous technology revolutions in Web and mobile, however, there will be huge dividends for those organizations who can harness this technology for competitive advantage.

I spend a lot of time working with customers, many of whom are investing significant time and effort  in building AI applications for this very reason. From the outside, these applications couldn’t be more diverse – fraud detection, retail recommendation engines, knowledge sharing – but I see a sweeping opportunity across the board: context.

Without context (who the user is, what they are searching for, what similar users have searched for in the past, and how all these connections play together) these AI applications may never reach their full potential. Context is data, and as a data geek, that is profoundly exciting.

We’re now looking at things, not strings  .... " 

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I could never Agree more. I have had recently a concept idea of "Autnonomous Search Engine" that looks for context like you mentioned and simulates my research on the web all together. So you sleep and you let it run , then wake up to find some reserach done on your behalf.