Thanks for the case summary. I haven't looked into it, and that's some helpful background. One of the challenges in even determining a motive if the men were murdered is that it could have been for financial gain or just for spite. If I were Columbo and working this case, I'd be talking to all the disgruntled HP shareholders. But I guess…
Thanks for the case summary. I haven't looked into it, and that's some helpful background. One of the challenges in even determining a motive if the men were murdered is that it could have been for financial gain or just for spite. If I were Columbo and working this case, I'd be talking to all the disgruntled HP shareholders. But I guess that episode would run a few decades. lol
I'm not an expert on the technology behind autonomy. But I think your supposition that it could be used for pre-crime is probably on-target. You can think of digital signatures in this context like this: Autonomy has a digital signature for all the concepts it's been trained on. And you can think of each signature as a set of parameter values, say a =100, b = 12, c = 75, which of course is an oversimplification. And it calculates a similar signature for each "document" in its database. Then it uses algorithms based on Beyesian math to calculate a score that expresses how close the signature of each document is to the signature for the concept you're searching on.
At the time when I was using Autonomy, a unique feature was the ability to search video and audio files using the same concept. You could feed it an image, for example, and it could find pictures or videos in its database which the Bayesian math said were matches to that image you were searching for. Same with audio files.
Of course, everyone and their dog is making apps now that do something like this, Google's image search is a well known example, but I imagine there are many thousands of examples. I don't know to what extent or in what manner Autonomy is upstream from these apps, but clearly it was an early application of a technology that is truly ubiquitous now.
Thanks for the case summary. I haven't looked into it, and that's some helpful background. One of the challenges in even determining a motive if the men were murdered is that it could have been for financial gain or just for spite. If I were Columbo and working this case, I'd be talking to all the disgruntled HP shareholders. But I guess that episode would run a few decades. lol
I'm not an expert on the technology behind autonomy. But I think your supposition that it could be used for pre-crime is probably on-target. You can think of digital signatures in this context like this: Autonomy has a digital signature for all the concepts it's been trained on. And you can think of each signature as a set of parameter values, say a =100, b = 12, c = 75, which of course is an oversimplification. And it calculates a similar signature for each "document" in its database. Then it uses algorithms based on Beyesian math to calculate a score that expresses how close the signature of each document is to the signature for the concept you're searching on.
At the time when I was using Autonomy, a unique feature was the ability to search video and audio files using the same concept. You could feed it an image, for example, and it could find pictures or videos in its database which the Bayesian math said were matches to that image you were searching for. Same with audio files.
Of course, everyone and their dog is making apps now that do something like this, Google's image search is a well known example, but I imagine there are many thousands of examples. I don't know to what extent or in what manner Autonomy is upstream from these apps, but clearly it was an early application of a technology that is truly ubiquitous now.