Ask HN: What happened to the semantic web?

Post by mateo411 » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 5:43 PM UTC

JPLeRouzic wrote: post #16

JPLeRouzic wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 "