What are the best characteristics of a middleware platform? Yahoo! Pipes is my idea of a perfect cloud based middleware. The problem is that the performance is not enterprise grade. I would…
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Is there a viable replacement for Feedburner for bulk feed management?
Is there a viable replacement for Feedburner for bulk feed management? This is a good question; I’d like to know the answer. I use Yahoo! Pipes a lot. I love the idea…
What are the current sub problems that I could address in summarization, or what would you like a summarizer to do for you?
What are the current sub problems that I could address in summarization, or what would you like a summarizer to do for you? Think web feeds, think web APIs…. I want a…
Are there any RSS feed autodiscovery tools that output feed URL when given a site URL?
Are there any RSS feed autodiscovery tools that output feed URL when given a site URL? I believe you could do this using the Yahoo! Pipes “Feed Auto-Discovery Module” [1]. Use the…
What is the current status of systems which can answer questions framed from a given text article?
What is the current status of systems which can answer questions framed from a given text article? Question Generation (QG) [1] and Question Answering (QA) [2] are two different things. In terms…
Can a computer that is designed to fake self-awareness be as good as a computer that is truly self-aware?
Can a computer that is designed to fake self-awareness be as good as a computer that is truly self-aware? Think “smoke and mirrors”…. “Mind games” are a HUGE part of any Turing…
I want to create a custom chat bot for use with smart home software, but not from scratch. What’s the best method to do this?
I want to create a custom chat bot for use with smart home software, but not from scratch. What’s the best method to do this? In lieu of answering this question here,…
What are some of the best chatterbots?
What are some of the best chatterbots? Cleverbot.com [1] is arguably the most popular. The newly popular SimiSimi mobile app is perhaps a close second, particularly in Asia. Wikipedia contains both a…
How would a society benefit from an AI that passes the Turing test?
How would a society benefit from an AI that passes the Turing test? It is my belief that the Turing test is a “red herring”, which is not to say that society…
What types of applications would you like to see for the Google AR Glasses?
What types of applications would you like to see for the Google AR Glasses? Think #SecondLife … I would like to see avatars move back and forth between virtual worlds and augmented…