Why? What's changed to switch the balance from machine learned back in favor of painstakingly manually curated? Sounds a bit like wishful thinking to me. I don'

Why? What's changed to switch the balance from machine learned back in favor of painstakingly manually curated? Sounds a bit like wishful thinking to me. I don't think that cat will jump back into the bag and zip the bag up behind itself. Machines are only going to continue to outpace humans when it comes to pattern recognition, classifying things, or making sense of unstructured data. I don't see that turning around. Maybe there will be a market for "artisanal ontologies". But I wouldn't get my hopes up for that one.