AI Meets Web 2.0

This article is derived from the 2005 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence conference invited talk "AI Meets Web 2.0: Building the Web of Tomorrow, Today" presented by Jay M. Tenenbaum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I invited Marty to deliver that talk at IAAI-05 because he is a true AI and web visionary. It is common in times of grade inflation and hyperbole that speakers and authors are introduced as "visionaries." Jay M. Tenenbaum (or Marty, as he is known) actually is a world-renowned Internet commerce pioneer and visionary. Mary envisioned the commercial and industrial use of the Internet more than a decade before it became a reality, at a time when only academics, industrial R&D groups, and government labs had access to it.