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# Project Halo Aims to Develop a ‘Digital Aristotle’
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/project-halo-aims-to-develop-a-8216-digital-aristotle-8217/
- Published: 2003-06-20T20:42:53.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-24T15:18:36.000Z
- Description: Project Halo is an artificial intelligence initiative of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his investment group, Vulcan Inc.…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

Project Halo is an artificial intelligence initiative of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his investment group, Vulcan Inc. In this article, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer says that “Allen claims success in work on computers that can reason.”

“The project seeks to develop a so-called Digital Aristotle, named after the Greek philosopher who, in a far simpler day, is said to have known the answer to any question about science.

The project’s early phases are limited to hard science, specifically chemistry, and was a success according to project manager Noah Friedland. He thinks that this technology could be applied to education and customer service.

This technology could, for example, replace the one-third of the work force at Amazon.com handling customer service, he said

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