Getting knowledgable

This week I've been settling into my new role as Head of Knowledge at True Knowledge.  It's very exciting to be joining such an awesome management team, and a company full of incredibly smart and capable people. 

The best way to describe what we're doing is probably to quote our website:

True Knowledge is building the first internet-scale platform for answering the world’s questions.

Our goal is to power a new kind of search experience where users can access the world’s knowledge simply by asking for the information they need in a way that is completely natural to them; just as if they were talking to another human being.

Instead of a list of links that may or may not be relevant to the query, the user experience is an immediate, perfect response, giving them exactly the information they are after.

Our unique semantic technology has been many years in development. It understands user questions, represents knowledge in a way that the system can understand and process and can combine existing knowledge to infer new facts and answer questions it has never seen before.

Powering the platform is also a database of facts: a unified representation of the world’s knowledge containing factual, common sense and lexical knowledge. We can already answer trillions of questions and as this knowledge base grows, we understand and answer more and more.

I even have a new hat, thanks to Amyas:

Exciting times!