The Spider’s Brain
After reading only the most basic description of a neural network, it’s obvious to me that the Google Spider is an “intelligence” that is now operating on this basis. Trustrank (the marriage of mathematics and subjectivity) has replaced prior, purely mathematical, methods for determining the “merit” of pages and sites. This subjectivity was imparted to the Spider’s functioning by an initial human “seeding” of data, during which the Spider was basically told by its “teachers” — “This is what good looks like”. This is exactly the same as the initial “training” required of neural networks before they can be left to their own devices, to proceed down a pathway of self-education and ever-increasing effectiveness in the performance of their pre-defined objectives…more
February 12th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
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July 31st, 2006 at 12:14 pm
[…] After reading only the most basic description of a neural network, it’s obvious to me that the Google Spider is an “intelligence” that is now operating on this basis. Trustrank (the marriage of mathematics and subjectivity) has replaced prior, purely mathematical, methods for determining the “merit” of pages and sites. This subjectivity was imparted to the Spider’s functioning by an initial human “seeding” of data, during which the Spider was basically told by its “teachers” — “This is what good looks like… more […]