Where we Are actually headed
Instead of rewriting the Web so that the computers could understand, we are making the computers smarter and are slowly empowering them to obtain knowledge. And that is a big difference because it’s aggregating information from all over the world, and learning what it means. And that is what Web 3.0 will all be about. The big players have decided to join efforts and bring forth Neural Networks, Word2Vecs, Bayesian Networks and many other tools so that computers could learn.
And that leaves the Semantic Web in the dust.
I’m only starting to learn more about how to mine knowledge from simple datasets but I can say decisively that AI is coming. Very hard.
Google is positioning itself as an AI company (see their work on google translate), Nvidia is focusing their GPU’s for AI, and so are Microsoft and Facebook going in this direction.
Conclusion
The Semantic Web was a great idea and still is. But I’m not seeing a future for it as it is. It needs to evolve and integrate it’s ideas with artificial intelligence. To link data without requiring a whole rewriting of what we already have.
If you want to hear more about AI you could read the following:
If you are a developer and want to learn more I suggest this course:
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