Robot RoboCrunch Official Six-Fold Definition of Web 3.0

Asimov Robots in Our Midst

Asimov described future robots as super-supercomputers embodied in humanoid form. Presently there are systems with somewhat similar capacities, but they are distributed among many thousands of computers. Similar computational power cannot be localized in the size of a human head, or anywhere close to that.

But, when tens of thousands of computers and a few humans are hooked together, the result is computational intelligence comparable with Asimov's humanoid robots.

The problem is that nobody bothered to impose on these nascent systems Asimov's laws of robotics, especially the First Law:

"A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. "

Of course there is no "positronic brain" to which this can be programmed, yet the corporations controlling the super-robots could, and should as a matter of policy, impose upon them Asimov's First Law. Exposure to offensive material, the wasting of time due to irrelevant search results, addictions to brainless activities, etc., would all be disallowed by corporations' voluntarily subject their super-robots to the First Law of Robotics.

During the transition from 2.0 to 3.0, the super-robots are "evolving" the ability to follow the First Law (by a kind of "natural selection" process, where people simply prefer using harmless and helpful super-robots over others).

The following Six Principles of Web 3.0, are all the result of a natural gradual process of the super-robots'  beginning to function in accordance with the First Law of Robotics.

1. Content Production Powered by Robot Labor

In Web 3.0, content production will be powered primarily by the intelligent robots as opposed to the labor of social network participants.  Asimov robots cannot sit passively and allow their human masters anticipated future wishes not to be fulfilled instantly by their present inaction.  They therefore proactively prepare content for what is likely to be needed, without waiting for people to submit the content through Social Graph. 

2. Emphasis on Linguistic Intelligence

Web 3.0 Robots will not be able to continue to pretend that they do not understand even simple human language.  Take for example two word phrases like "Boston Realtors".  Would anybody claim that Google technology is unable to understand which group of people is being referred to?  Of course not.  But presently a search  simply brings various pages in which these words are mentioned, instead of retrieving the required information from a database about actual Boston Realtors. 

3.  Executable Command (as in Wolfram Alpha) Replaces Traditional Search Query

When a super-robot recognizes a simple linguistic expression, some sort of Knowledge Computation Engine needs to be called for the corresponding Semantic Object, otherwise the user will be presented with data which is not as complete as it should be.

4.  Massive Real-Time Communication

This is the secret of the sudden spectacular success of Twitter - it actually implements one of the central aspects of Web 3.0. Certainly the super-robot would not want to cheat the user out of the most recent data available.

5.  Massive Robot Cooperation

When a super-robot doesn't have the right information, the Web 3.0 thing to do is to ask other super-robots, which would love to fully cooperate (it's not an ego thing by them). Most importantly, a semantic protocol must be developed that would make it possible to initiate new channels of robotic cooperation without human workers having to learn technical specs and licensing documentation.

6.  Nanopayment

It's clear that in order to prevent the human owners of collaborating super-robots from any financial losses, precise measurment of each robot's contribution and immediate proper compensation is necessary. This calls for digital checks for microscopic amounts in virtual currency that a robot could be authorized to spend at its own discretion without consulting a human.