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In September, the Wikimedia Foundation won a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to start building the "Wikimedia Knowledge Engine," a "system for discovering reliable and trustworthy public information on the internet," according to grant documents, which were released late last week. That the Knowledge Engine, now known as "Wikimedia Discovery," even existed was news to the Wikipedia editors community, who say the project's secretive nature and very existence are fundamentally at odds with Wikimedia's transparent ethos.

Social search - is Google missing a trick?

Steve, have you tried Greplin and if so what's your experience? Does it negate the need for other search tools (I don't want a proliferation of search tools)? Does the indexing slow up your machine?

Gary, it does a better search of your social networks than Google, probably because you're giving it permission to index them. You still need a general search engine (such as Google) for the broader internet content. Indexing has no impact on your machine. I haven't used it long enough to determine whether or not it's features are useful enough to make it my first choice search engine for social media/social network content.

Google answers these questions with the help from deep neural networks, a form of artificial intelligence rapidly remaking not just Google's search engine but the entire company and, well, the other giants of the internet, from Facebook to Microsoft.

Google extends its Knowledge Graph 

"For problems that are original, whose answers are not already known, and that require intuition, judgment and ingenuity, you need people. Smart people who not only know how to search, but who have the expertise and judgment to know whether what they've found is most relevant to solving the problem at hand."

Microsoft's research arm and Bing search engine business unit released on Wednesday a chat bot named Tay, which is powered by artificial intelligence technologies.

Many companies are seeing that the future of deep learning is here, and that it doesn't require a lot of money or resources to take advantage of this new industrial science. IBM's Watson Analytics offers a freemium service that allows you to upload up to 500MB, and enables you to explore your own real-life applications for deep learning. Inputting Google Adwords or other sales metrics into this tool can help even startup companies find relational and predictive information in their data.

"The future of digital culture-yours, mine, and ours-depends on how well we learn to use the media that have infiltrated, amplified, distracted, enriched, and complicated our lives. How you employ a search engine, stream video from your phonecam, or update your Facebook status matters to you and everyone, because the ways people use new media in the first years of an emerging communication regime can influence the way those media end up being used and misused for decades to come. Instead of confining my exploration to whether or not Google is making us stupid, Facebook is commoditizing our privacy, or Twitter is chopping our attention into microslices (all good questions), I've been asking myself and others how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and above all mindfully. This book is about what I've learned."

It's not humans who are the recipients and decision makers of data and analysis, it's machines. Machines are making all or most of the decisions in areas like programmatic advertising, search engine optimization, credit approval, insurance underwriting, Internet of Things applications, and many more.

Google believes that artificial intelligence (A.I.) virtual assistants (VA) and the conversational user interface (CUI) will largely supplant search engines and mobile apps for many users. We're moving into an "A.I.-first world," according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Recommended by Luc Glasbeek at the 2014 Autumn workshop