I wish I believed that it wouldn’t just lead to people seeding the online data sources with contradictory claims, causing such a fact-checker to return the equivalent of modern journalistic “we report; you decide” fact-agnostic reporting.
Still, the technology would be useful regardless.
A friend of mine, back in his MIT Media Lab days, was working on a “remembrance agent” that more or less worked along these lines but processed local hard drive content, to remind the user of previous conversations/projects/etc. related to what they’re currently working on.
What happened to the “remembrance agent” program? A quick search for the term finds the remem extension for emacs, which sounds similar. Might be good for the list of power tools on the wiki.
Apparently the project died for lack of corporate sponsorship; nobody could figure out how to make money with it. Eventually a similar project with a different orientation became a popular product for cross-linking related websites for advertising purposes.
Beats me; I assume he went on to work on other things. I just dropped him some email to ask him about it; I’ll let you know if I learn anything interesting.
I wish I believed that it wouldn’t just lead to people seeding the online data sources with contradictory claims, causing such a fact-checker to return the equivalent of modern journalistic “we report; you decide” fact-agnostic reporting.
Still, the technology would be useful regardless.
A friend of mine, back in his MIT Media Lab days, was working on a “remembrance agent” that more or less worked along these lines but processed local hard drive content, to remind the user of previous conversations/projects/etc. related to what they’re currently working on.
What happened to the “remembrance agent” program? A quick search for the term finds the remem extension for emacs, which sounds similar. Might be good for the list of power tools on the wiki.
Apparently the project died for lack of corporate sponsorship; nobody could figure out how to make money with it. Eventually a similar project with a different orientation became a popular product for cross-linking related websites for advertising purposes.
Beats me; I assume he went on to work on other things. I just dropped him some email to ask him about it; I’ll let you know if I learn anything interesting.