The official future of search
by Pete Bell
Pete Bell
Here’s another passage I love from the free first chapter of Search Patterns:
“The official future of search — artificial intelligence with a dash of information visualization — hasn’t changed in decades. Most search startups just add new wrinkles to an old face. We’re stuck on the original Star Trek, seeking technological singularity and the agents of tomorrow in a rusty rearview mirror. It’s like the signs outside British pubs that promise ‘Free Beer Tomorrow’ forever.”
We’ve monitored countless search startups over the past decade, and this is spot on. To paraphrase Vladimir’s earlier post, this future asks cobbled “strong AI” to do work humans can do much better. Instead we should be asking computers to complement human judgment.
