> why no one had hooked up a learning AI to Wikipedia/dbpedia and the rest of the Internet. This is because Natural Language Processing is apparently #@!$%@^ h

> why no one had hooked up a learning AI to Wikipedia/dbpedia and the rest of the Internet. This is because Natural Language Processing is apparently #@!$%@^ hard. Sure it's easy for a computer to extract things from a pile of assertions, and it's not even that difficult to work with fuzzy/probablistic assertions. But turning ordinary everyday English (or Spanish or whatever) into a pile of assertions (with appropriate certainties) is something that's still being figured out.