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It's also interesting timing, coming as it does on the heels of their "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" paper. I'd have to re-read it to comment, but at lea
by mark_h 17y ago
It's also interesting timing, coming as it does on the heels of their "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" paper.
I'd have to re-read it to comment, but at least some felt that it was being rather dismissive of semantic-web structures: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/275/ http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/275/
- rgrieselhuber 17y agoI've always thought they were a little too dismissive of semantic web structures, Peter Norvig in particular. But I also thought it was a ploy.
- smanek 17y agoI think the problem is that the semantic web is fundamentally very similar to the sort of 'logical ai' (Prolog, Cyc, etc) that is often blamed for the AI winter. Eliezer made a fairly convincing argument that a lot of this is the result of clever marketing campaign a few decades ago (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/logical-or-conn.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/logical-or-conn.html)
- ubernostrum 17y agoWell, so far nobody's really addressed the known issues with self-supplied metadata (see http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm for one good and old roundup)...