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by random3 312 days ago
Perhaps, but we still failed and not at personal computing, nor just semantic web, but computing and programming in general. The failure is between the original intent (computing was originally more or less AI) along with theory and actual result with every software project turning into unsustainable infinite regress. Things likely broke around ALGOL.

Also LLMs are failing too, for different reasons, but IMO unlikely AI in general will— it will correct a 60 years or so failure in industrial computer science.

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> we still failed [at] semantic web

The most reprehensible knowledge-search-and-communication failure of all.

We gave people monetisation of drek instead. Then asked them to use it for education. Then trained bot systems on it. Then said that even those answers must be made to confirm to transient propagandists.