Computerworld 2008-01-08

logo Computerworld s In Polish weekly magazine for managers and IT experts, Computerworld (ed.1), 8th January 2008 we can read Marek Borzestowski's article entitled „Web 3.0 is Coming”.
Web 3.0 is a natural consequence of Web 1.0 and 2.0 development. It is based on combining data sources and information in the way to make it possible for the web servers to organise and conclude from the data available online. That approach is oriented on realizing user's expectations. The examples of the application usage in the Web 3.0 model one can find on sites offering entertainment, banking or tourism service. These techniques enable the users' faster, easier and more intuitive access to the whole web resources as well as to the individual web services. Thanks to that, Internet will change into an easy-to-search data bank. The user will be able to ask a question in the natural language, i.e. „Find the cheapest flight to Berlin next Wednesday”.
Traditionally, AI was perceived as the possibility of creating the intelligent machine which remains alive human being – using rationality, common sense, methods of learning, possessing abstract knowledge. Along with those demands there are often requirements concerning communication with the computer by the natural language.
WWW services interface and application evolution, accessible either online or offline, is heading towards usage of AI with human interface elements, that is conversational agents.
In 90's, constant deficiency of computing power was users' nightmare. There was no economical reason for natural language tasks development. Currently, either PCs or web servers have hundreds times bigger possibilities, so one can successfully create solutions demanding huge computing power. It is possible to assume that it is not the user, who has to understand the logic of the service but the service has to „understand” the user's needs.
Thanks to the growing capacity of the web there a fluent transmission of the data in form of audio and full video stream is possible and as a consequence – it is possible to build a new communication model. Thanks to animation techniques and the fact that avatars are more and more common new services arise, which enable computer generated characters to replace a human being. It might not be long before the more traditional methods of communication via Internet, such as speech, will return.

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