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Re: Ask HN: What happened to the semantic web?

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I think you hint great points especially with "People are lazy". The semantic web was a great idea, but in the period from 2000 to 2010, people advertized it as a kind of AGI that would solve all hard problems with junk data. It is still used in biology, for example in Gene Ontology [0] but the main use case ( People are lazy ) is "If your research cannot find interesting stuff, just query Gene Ontology". [0] https:/…

While re-reading what I wrote, a part of a sentence makes me wonder " a kind of AGI that would solve all hard problems with junk data "

What does AGI mean in this context?
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