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AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing


AI is impressive because we’ve failed at semantic web and personal computing | exotext

What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France? "Search" here is a wide term: it can mean classic text-matching across indexed data, or complex multi-dimensional token matching across unwieldy models and weights. My point is that if all knowledge were stored in a structured way with rich semantic linking, then very primitive natural language processing algorithms could parse question like the example at the beginning of the article, and could find the answer using orders of magnitude fewer computational resources.

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