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What is an ontology exactly? I see Palantir talking about it all the time and it just sounds like vague marketing.
by SilverElfin 1y ago
What is an ontology exactly? I see Palantir talking about it all the time and it just sounds like vague marketing.
- GloriousMEEPT 1y agoThese days anyone can spin up a developer account and check it out. Near as I could tell, you can create abstract 'objects' and link them to datasets/columns in the environment. And then you can link objects together. It's basically just an ER modeling tool, but they have great sales and seemed to have convinced people that they are constructing ontologies.
- tgv 1y agoIt comes from "the knowledge of being," and has been used to describe real-world knowledge representation, in particular hierarchical(-ish) semantic networks in AI since its early days.
- SilverElfin 1y agoWhen I see Palantir talk about it in a press release is that something real or just fluffy marketing?
- tgv 1y agoCould be real. Such knowledge representation has been used in many systems. In limited domains, it can be useful.