Two speakers in this session including Peter Barrett, Microsoft TV on IPTV; and Scott Rafer, chairman of Wireless Ink, previously founder of Feedster. From the program: "Each can greatly personalize the information we receive, "shrinking” the planet by making all the world’s knowledge more accessible than ever before."
Peter Barrett is talking about video services over high-speed broadband. Mobile operators in particular are interested in integrating voice, data, video. He sees much of the uses being in the 'long tail' of personal media, sharing of user-created photographs and video.
Scott Rafer makes the point that aggregated, collaborative intelligence is here and now. The Q&A at the end really underscore his point that other humans in aggregate are his "artificial intelligence" agents:
Q: How is this A.I.?
A: My talk is there is none. I grew up on Route 128 and I've been promised AI since I was 12.Q: Your talk seems to be about collaboratiive intelligence.
A: Yes, I think to average person the end-result will appear same.
IPTV, Peter Barrett, Microsoft TV
IPTV better for content providers; better for consumers. Broadcast TV is partly a function of way we monetize content; that's changing. The video lives in the service.
SBC Project Lightspeed - new IP-based fiber-rich network - up to 50 mbps to 18M customer households (today broadband in U.S. is at 1.5-6 Mbps). Doesn't stop at home - other devices on home would be connected within home.
IPTV is connected TV. Operators will start combining the voice services with the data services. Photos aren't just on my phone - they're on TV. They're part of the service, not part of device. Also sharing personal media.
If you look at those deploying IPTV - they are folks like SBC, Verizon - carriers with mobile services.
Live8 is poster child. Two inane VJs started to talk over Pink Floyd. People went online to watch.
If you want to catch Gilligan's Island, Episode 71, you can do that.
The Long Tail - there is some content EVERYONE wants to watch; then there's content that only a certain demographic wants to watch. Over time, the total audience under the 'long tail' is much larger. Broadcast TV is horrible at this.
I think Long Tail as all is about our pictures. To my parents, pictures of grand babies are at least as interesting as Six Feet Under. Personal media is much more immediate today.
Video service platform including billing, etc. Not very interesting to look at. Don't have a demo of it. From user point to view. (Shows some clips.) Tuning is in the network, not in the box. You can blend in media and data from other sources simultaneously - which is very difficult to do in broadcast or satellite. You can see what your friends and family are watching. You can also see what other people are watching.
People watch catastrophic events live. Or Super Bowl- which is sort of catastrophic. And that's it. The future is definitely PVR. People would rather lose color than PVR.
Ads can be targetted and connected to other forms of media. PVR isn't killing advertising. It's continuing fragmentation of media. There will be a new form of advertising.
Q: On your comment when you said video was in the service...
A: The end-to-end principle of IP is still there. But we need a way to develop premium channels. Looking at pictures - you're going over the core. What I described was a private network by SBC.
The user sees a service-specific view of the service.
Built on public standards for security.
The system does support IPv6 infrastructure. This is a service platform for operators. SBC is launching with Yahoo and partnering with application developers. It's a platform for ecosystem, not a service in and of itself.
Scott Rafer, newly chairman of Wireless Ink (wherever you are in world, find realtime chats), just previously founder Feedster
"AI is 10 to 9th broadband humans"
Smart agents are other human beings. The Web 2.0 systems are all going to be passing Turing test. The book I think that is useful to understand this is Emergence, by Steven Johnson. Five rules outlined in that book.
Humans are useful.
Humans are consistent. (Shows triangle of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ending with self-actualization. Note from blogger: Actually Maslow added Transcendance as last layer.) Scott's version of Maslow:
- Water, Food, Booze
- Bars, Restaurants
- Potential mates?
- How do I look?
- Is this really all there is?
Is this semantic?
- How do I find an apartment near (or far away from) where my friends drink heavily?
- Which TV segments are being viewed by people who influence opinion most?
(The only TV shows that Scott watches are ones recommended by a few bloggers he reads. "I trust them.")
Humans will be my AI.
See also: del.icio.us/popular, Chicago crime map (at chicagocrime.org), cheap gas (this may be what Scott refers to), onegoodmove.org TV excerpts - all the good parts are right there (MORE: "Already sites like onegoodmove post long clips from commercial programming like Jon Stewart’s "The Daily Show," and thus far most content owners haven’t complained." - MSNBC's The Practical Futurist article)
Q: How is this AI?
A: My talk is there is none. I grew up on Route 128 and I've been promised AI since I was 12.
Q: Your talk seems to be about collaboratiive intelligence.
A: Yes, I think to average person the end-result will appear same.
Q: You're saying that population of humans is better than AI.
A: It exists.
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