On 9 Oct 2012, at 00:24, Dan Schlossberg <
danschl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to hear a talk titled: "api craftsmen: midwives to the singularity".
>
> It will start by comparing Apis to lone neurons and the Internet to synapses. as it becomes easier and easier to connect these Apis, they will being to connect themselves. (After all, an API discovery protocol can't be too far off). The first automated connections will be crude and fragile but the algorithms will be refined till they approach AI. This AI will be improved by humans at first but then autonomously. Shortly thereafter it will become self aware.
>
> I'd like this talk to be given by someone dressed as a mage. At the end of the presentation the presenter will pull back his cloak and drop his robe to reveal that he is actually a blob of amorphous liquid metal a la T2. The blob will ascend slowly till halfway between ceiling and floor and the divide into streams exiting though every portal to the room, disappearing forever.
The SemWeb community have been doing this for many years. It's very strange. :)