“Microsoft has been working on ‘Lifebrowser,’ a software akin to an intelligent search engine that collects, organizes and curates your virtual life,” reports Digital Trends.
The prototype curation software is essentially a “scaled down and personal solution” of the approach companies are taking with their “big data.”
“You can think of it as a smart search engine of your virtual proclivities,” adds Digital Trends. “Lifebrowser’s machine-learning algorithm will crawl through all of your online and offline activities, find only what it discerns as significant events in your life, and save the information in chronological order for later perusal.”
The software is designed to emulate how humans recall information. “You always think that machine learning is kind of cold,” explains Microsoft researcher Eric Horvitz. “This is showing that a model is not only learning about how I think, it’s also very warmly understanding what it means to capture humanity.”
No word on when the algorithm and timeline design may go public, although Digital Trends suggests it would be a nice addition to Windows 9.
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