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Sunday, November 09, 2014

Taking Autocompletion Further

A simplistic metaphor for intelligence is autocompletion.  We are very used to it today. We have knowledge, now how do we use that knowledge to predict what should be next in a given context?    In Wired:

" .... Now, a government-backed research team wants to provide similar suggestions to the world’s programmers as they’re writing computer code. That’s right: the aim is to guess what programmers are coding before they code it.

This week, Rice University said that Darpa, the Pentagon’s mad science division, has invested $11 million in this autocomplete programming project, dubbed PLINY, after the ancient Roman author of the first encyclopedia, “Text search prediction is the best analogy,” says Vivek Sarkar, the chair of the computer science department at Rice and the principal investigator on the project. “People will be able to will be able to pick from a list of possible solutions.” ... " 

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