This is of course one of the all time great (geek) topics: who will rule in the future – humans or machines? I was reminded of it by discussion of Techmeme’s story selection. It should not be surprising that a single algorithm – in Gabe’s case link analysis – is not always successful at picking out the important stories. One of the things that makes our human brains so powerful is that they can more or less in parallel apply many different algorithms and synthesize the results. When we look a...

This is of course one of the all time great (geek) topics: who will rule in the future – humans or machines? I was reminded of it by discussion of Techmeme’s story selection. It should not be surprising that a single algorithm – in Gabe’s case link analysis – is not always successful at picking out the important stories. One of the things that makes our human brains so powerful is that they can more or less in parallel apply many different algorithms and synthesize the results. When we look a...