Someone commented recently in another thread that you can make software from order (via languages) or from chaos (ML), or often a combination of the two. Perha

Someone commented recently in another thread that you can make software from order (via languages) or from chaos (ML), or often a combination of the two. Perhaps determining "meaning" on the web is similar, where the synthetic "order" approach is semantic markup, but the analytical "chaos" approach is NLP, image object recognition, etc. I think you need both, since human produced content doesn't always follow discrete predefined categories, but also has patterns that can be pre-classified to solve real problems more easily.