iPhone explosions

Apple has started to charge back with regards to the iphone explosions. Enough of this non-sense baseless claims about iphone explosions. First apple claims and then a tier two tech support guy claiming he never heard/handled any issue about iPhone exploding. Here is the story. I for one tend to believe apple on this. I am not saying there are 1 or 2 edge case scenarios but every other story is a mushroom effect based on those 1 or 2 incidents.

End of Anonymous Blogging

Looks like the days of blogging anonymously esp, when you slander an individual/organization, are over. According to mashable.com's article even google has to reveal the identity of the blogger behind slandering of Liskula Cohen, a Canadian born model. I for one like it, too many people have confusion about freedom of speech with consequences of saying anything they like.

Where is AI and Search Technology

AI has fallen out of favor in the last decade not because it didn't work or it doesn't have promise. Fundamentally AI was oversold. The marketing machine went into over drive and over hyped it as usual. Naturally the promise could never catch up with the hype and result was huge disappointments all around. Still never the less, there were areas where AI has proven very successful in terms of applications. Besides robotics which has always been in synonymous with AI, medical diagnosis/video games/stock trading are a few.

If you ignore the myth's/futuristic prognosis of the AI field, the one field i think in the current era which shows promise is the field of search. Various experts in the field believe search engines will become the first representatives of Artificial Intelligence. But how and when varies depending on whom you ask:

Within google the leader in search technology the answers vary from very near future to 10yrs to 50yrs. As varying as the answers are this is one area of particular interest to myself and me and few others would like to make this a reality sooner than later....How far we will succeed we will know in another 10yrs.

Internet Revolution

It is amazing how much clutter is now present on the internet. As good as google is, it has become so huge that the results don't mean anything anymore.... You ask for something and you get dumped huge list of unrelated things. Ofcourse once you start clicking you are lost in the jungle of click throughs. It's like going to mall with out a list of things to buy. But seriously searching on the internet used to be fruitful, now its pretty much crap shoot. Only if there was some kind of an AI engine behind and can think like a human brain.... Now thats an idea......