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This is an advertisement for something like the semantic web, not AI or language models.
by 77pt77 4y ago
This is an advertisement for something like the semantic web, not AI or language models.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoAnd let me know when the semantic web becomes successful after 2+ decades trying. The semantic web was always pretty much doomed to failure because it imposed a large cost on the content creator, who themselves get little benefit out of the structure.
- 77pt77 4y ago> becomes successful after 2+ decades trying Rich pro-ai argument.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoFair point. Still, the semantic web is dead because we already solved the problem with a better solution, which is open APIs. The idea that everything would work great if only all of our data was structured and easily parseable everywhere just leads me to ask "Do you not interact with humans on a regular basis?"
- jacquesm 4y agoThe bigger reason why it was a failure is not because it imposes a cost in terms of work on the content creator, it imposes a lack of control on the part of the party that considers themselves the 'owner' of the data. If every webpage that right now is plastered with ads and various junk to get you to subscribe/form a relationship/amplify the content would just be the structured data and a default way to render that data would be present in every browser then most content monetization strategies would fail. Follow the money, not the effort.
- scientism 4y agoNail in the head. But can you imagine what it would have been if hakia would have been a thing instead of the SEO-spam, ad-infested Web that Google and Co. gave us?
- jacquesm 4y agoThat's a hard question. I really have no idea, but I would have loved a browser that takes in structured data and displays it in a way that I control any day over the junk that the web has become.
- wazoox 4y agoActually I know a guy who've been working on semantic web for like two decades and his project is finally gaining some traction right now precisely because he can now leverage AI to sort it out and turbocharge his application.
- 77pt77 4y agoI'm very skeptical. It seems to go against the grain.
- wazoox 4y agoWhat do you mean? "Semantic web" has been around since XML was touted as the data silver bullet, promising structured and semantically organised data 25 years ago. Countless startups tried : XML databases, digital asset management, countless o-so solutions... Until today.