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AI's Rise Highlights Failure of Personal Computing and Data Structure

AI excels by navigating unstructured data due to personal computing shortcomings

From Hacker News Original Article Hacker News Discussion

Large language models like ChatGPT excel at answering complex questions by inferring structure from the chaotic, unstructured data on the web, a task traditional search engines struggle with.

Why it matters: LLMs provide powerful, immediate access to knowledge despite the web's lack of organized, semantic data.

The big picture: The failure to build a well-structured, semantically linked web has led to reliance on brute-force AI rather than elegant, efficient knowledge systems.

The stakes: Without structured knowledge, AI models must use massive resources to approximate understanding, hiding knowledge inside opaque models.

Commenters say: Many reflect on the lost promise of the Semantic Web, debating if better structured data or LLM-driven indexing is the future of information access.