With a new project announced, a team of international scientists have proposed building a simulation of the entire world. The Living Earth Simulator will not be the type of simulator one first pictures, as in a graphic virtual world. Rather it is a software program which operates at on supercomputers to comb through and analyze the large amounts of data on the internet for a selected output.
Through the use of semantic web technologies, the software will be able to more efficiently mine the vast archives of data on the internet. This effectively brings the internet to a more organized form and allows the massive amount of data to be used much more productively, rather than just staying stagnant while waiting for somebody to possibly pick them up in a search engine query, as they often do now.
While this simulator would undoubtedly be an effective data organizer and a huge advantage for scientists who need to simulate real world events for experiments, it could also be the first step towards creating environments in which AI can exist.
If software can "intelligently" comb the archives of the internet and produce given outputs, then the same software may be programmed to produce an AI. By searching the internet and finding all knowledge on computer science, mechanics, neural structure, and other relevant fields, the software could possibly have the capability to create the first true AI.
This project is sure to be years away and it would certainly be years after its initial availability that it would be sophisticated enough to create AI's, but this (or a later version of it) may be the missing link between us and the digital world that will ultimately create the long-coveted AI's.
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