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   angry dude, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 6:45am

   
   

   shut up Mike

   Mike, for God's sake...
   
   WTF are you talking about, dude ?
   You just don't have a fucking clue, dude
   You are as clueless as any punk from the street.
   Get a life, dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    

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   One Love, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 7:08am

   
   

   Need better desktop Search

   I am on a Windows XP box, and the search function to go through my rat pack hard drives filled with absolutely blows. Desktop search on the my girlfriend Mac OS X sucks as well.
   
   I know Google has the desktop thingy, but I am loathe to open the deeper recesses of my digital attic to the AI that has become Google, ever though I am a fan.
   
   Personal spiders and bots ? Something a bit more accurate than Clippy ?
   
   :(

    

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   Bob, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 7:21am

   
   

   Re: Need better desktop Search

   NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING ismore accurate than Clippy. He is the manifestation of awesomeness.

    

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   mr. whatever, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 7:40am

   
   

   Re: shut up Mike

   Wow...that was a well formulated argument against Mike's article. How did you ever come up with such compelling reasons for ripping on someone else's opinion? Hey, dude, perhaps you should consider the possibility that for a great deal of people it's becoming increasingly easier to simply keep copies of everything as opposed to having to delete them.
   
   It's not a far fetched idea, though it may be a bit premature. I've got ~6TB of home storage an it's almost completely filled with pictures, photoshoppings, home movies, and DVD backups (MCE is a nice thing when paired with MyMovies, no more sifting through bookcases of DVDs to find what I want).

    

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   Read TFA, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 7:44am

   
   

   Re: Re: shut up Mike

   Also, systems like those that beat Kasparov at chess back in the day were built on depth first searching of possible chess moves...just a huge database of things that it could do. The larger the DB and the faster the searching, the better a system will perform at chess. Unless, of course, someone can actually come up with a real learning algorithm, then sufficient learning will probably perform as well as a big calculator.

    

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   B, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 7:46am

   
   

   Clippy's dead

   I'm runing on Vista and Clippy is dead. I shot the dead horse.
   The Vista search is pretty good (for what I've put it through so far... Although the only time I even use search is in the desperate attempt to find something I deleted.

    

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   TheDock22, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 7:49am

   
   

   Content = AI?

   I sure hope not or my computer would be one messed up hunk of junk. :D

    

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   Shohat, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 7:52am

   
   

   Hello Mike

   You post made no sense. Not only did it not make sense , it was misleading.
   So, perhaps the quest for better artificial intelligence will actually be served better not by all the attempts at better algorithms or other tricks -- but by the fact that there's so much data out there that no one's getting rid of,
   Is an insult to intelligence(no pun intended).
   While one of AI's most important forms is actually data compression(you know, algorithms+tricks !) , you have no idea how off the target you are.
   You know that a baby is born an intelligent being right? It is able to learn languages from scratch, and without any "translation" but he's own logic.
   Intelligence != knowledge.
   Clearly, the thing you think AI is , is just not AI.

    

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   Boost, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 9:17am

   
   

   Re: Re: shut up Mike

   Not to rip on you or anything, but do you have a life outside of your computer? 6 Terabytes? Are you kidding me? I've been making due with less than 50 Gigabytes for the last 4 years. Yeah, I don't really download at all, but damn dude what the hell are you trying to do, back up the internet?

    

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    Bill Gates, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 9:32am

    
    

    Re: Re: Re: shut up Mike

    But 640k ought to be enough for anyone!

     

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    angry dude, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 9:32am

    
    

    Re: Re: Re: shut up Mike

    The dude is trying to contribute to the profits of hard drive manufacturers out of his monthly allowance
    Good boy

     

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    Cooperate Storage., Sep 11th, 2007 @ 9:36am

    
    

    Information Age.

    Hello people, we are not talking about our own home/personal storage, I have a ton myself, but it's nothing compared to cooperate databases and important documents that they create in everyday business. Also studies and lab work from research companies, video data from whatever application used some. Also our world information doubles almost every 14 months from the previous year, just think about about how much info there is out there. Yes it is true that we do need intelligence to learn from knowledge, but AI in theory if developed properly is capable of learning in it's own way.

     

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    Poomer, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 10:19am

    
    

    Re: Content = AI?

    Thank god its not! Sorry, Mike you are waaayyy off here mate.

     

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    Poomer, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 10:50am

    
    

    Re: Hello Mike

    Taking a class or reading up on AI might have helped here. Knowledge representation is only a fragment of what AI consists of. DATA

     

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    silver, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 11:53am

    
    

    Do you work for the man?

    It sounds like Mike works for the government trying to datamine everything on everone. While it might be easier to keep everything, lets pretend it's like the old shoeboxes of transactions people used to have, and not some monster database where someone can find out everything from what movies I watch to what toothpaste I like, to what condoms I use! The last thing I need is a jelous governmental emplyee looking through my data!

     

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    Joel, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 11:56am

    
    

    Re: Re: Re: shut up Mike

    That's a crap load of porn.

     

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    ROFL @ one love, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 12:27pm

    
    

    Re: Need better desktop Search

    ROFL you newb, that isn't AI it is just a search engine, the AI thing he is talking about has been around for years and basically it searches through the data and stores it to memory for processing, it learns from processing and relating everything it has stored.

     

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    I too am slighty scared... but, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 1:00pm

    
    

    Re: Need better desktop Search

    Google Desktop really is, in my humble geek opinion, the best there is.
    
    Has anyone found any "phone-home" indications or vulnerabilities in the app? I will definetly be avoiding the "Search content across multiple computers" though, it's just a bad idea, IMO.

     

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    Mike (profile), Sep 11th, 2007 @ 5:06pm

    
    

    Re: Hello Mike

    While one of AI's most important forms is actually data compression(you know, algorithms+tricks !) , you have no idea how off the target you are.
    
    Well, it's great to know that there are folks around who are always willing to try to set me straight. Though, I'm not sure I understand your complaint here.
    
    You know that a baby is born an intelligent being right? It is able to learn languages from scratch, and without any "translation" but he's own logic.
    Intelligence != knowledge.
    
    I wasn't saying that AI was in the data alone. But, as the article stated, the fact that more data is available makes it that much easier to train new AI systems and to test out larger scale machine learning systems.

     

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    Mike (profile), Sep 11th, 2007 @ 5:08pm

    
    

    Re: Do you work for the man?

    It sounds like Mike works for the government trying to datamine everything on everone.
    
    I've heard all sorts of false conspiracies about who I "work" for, but this is a first. This has to be the funniest blind accusation I've read in quite some time.
    
    While it might be easier to keep everything, lets pretend it's like the old shoeboxes of transactions people used to have, and not some monster database where someone can find out everything from what movies I watch to what toothpaste I like, to what condoms I use! The last thing I need is a jelous governmental emplyee looking through my data!
    
    You seem to have jumped to quite the paranoid conclusion. All I pointed out was that it was easier to keep data, so many companies are keeping data -- and that's allowing them to do all sorts of interesting datamining activities. That has nothing to do with the gov't or whether or not someone's spying on you.

     

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    Charles Griswold, Sep 11th, 2007 @ 7:53pm

    
    

    Re: Re: Re: Re: shut up Mike

    The dude is trying to contribute to the profits of hard drive manufacturers out of his monthly allowance
    Good boy

    
    Do you have any actual proof of your allegations, or have you just been smoking tire rubber?

     

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