Ah, now I see what angle you are coming at this from. Yes, data mining techniques would certainly be invaluable to an AGI (which needs to be able to organize its input data into useful information) as well as lucrative to any number of companies. I saw a talk by John Hopcroft a while back that made it seem very appealing.
See http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/data/
Ah, now I see what angle you are coming at this from. Yes, data mining techniques would certainly be invaluable to an AGI (which needs to be able to organize its input data into useful information) as well as lucrative to any number of companies. I saw a talk by John Hopcroft a while back that made it seem very appealing.