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The Semantic Web Is Dead – Long Live the Semantic Web

by LukeEF on 3/19/24, 4:30 PM with 5 comments

• by pornel on 3/20/24, 2:17 PM

  Semantic Web is dead, because we've suddenly achieved its goal without it.

  We no longer need everyone to publish their information in a machine-readable form, because through LLMs we can make machines read the human-readable versions now.

  LLMs are not quite reliable, but the machine-readable data was never reliable either. The Web as a whole is messy, and invisible metadata is systematically less well maintained than the primary human-centric information.

• by JumpCrisscross on 3/20/24, 9:53 AM

  Machines seem to have a finer time picking through our detritus than any armies of engineers trying to give it context.