We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
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How simple structured data trumps clever machine learning
We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis April 2021 How simple structured data trumps clever machine learning The late nineties dream of search engines was that they would use grand-scale Artificial Intelligence to find everything, understand most of it and help us retrieve the best of it. Not much of that has really come true. AI to rule them all! AI to find them? Google has always performed a wide crawl of the entire web. But few webmasters are so naive as to assume their pages will be found this way. Even this website, which has fewer than 20 pages, has had problems
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