Google director doubts Semantic Web
Tim Berners-Lee is considered one of the founding fathers of the World Wide Web and is the current director of the W3C Consortium. He made an opening statement on the Semantic Web on Tuesday at the opening of the XXI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence .
Tim Berners-Lee said that the next stage in the evolution of the World Wide Web will be to create an environment in which all data will be available for detection and analysis by artificial intelligence programs. The semantic network is the Internet, where all the information is specially formatted not only for the convenience of the person, but also for the convenience of the machines that will also actively work with it. Due to this new information processing capabilities and new applications will appear.
As usual, the director of W3C encouraged developers to more actively use semantic languages, in addition to HTML. He drew attention to the importance of using URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) and the RDF (Resource Description Framework) standard for identifying information. If the creation of the Semantic Network goes in the intended direction, then the Internet will soon turn into an interactive environment for co-creation and work, as it was originally intended.
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Immediately after the presentation, time was set for questions from the audience, and the director of Google Search and member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Peter Norvig was the first to approach the microphone. He used the opportunity of public speaking to the fullest and even argued with the speaker, according to journalists who witnessed the dispute.
Peter Norvig spoke on behalf of Google and said that there were several obstacles on the way to the Semantic Network. The main one is the incompetence of webmasters: “We are dealing with millions of webmasters who cannot set up a web server and are not able to write HTML code”. It will be very hard for these unfortunate specialists to go over to the standards of the Semantic Network. Other challenges are the competition of commercial providers who do not wish to adopt uniform standards, and the scam, which is a natural part of human nature. “Every day we deal with people who are trying to raise their site in search results and sell Viagra to someone who is not looking for it at all,” said Peter Norvig.
Tim Berners-Lee agreed that scamming on the Internet is a problem, but he explained that the Semantic Network involves mainly identifying the source of information, not a description of the content. In general, Google should be more interested than anyone else in implementing the standards of the Semantic Web.
Tim Berners-Lee said that the next stage in the evolution of the World Wide Web will be to create an environment in which all data will be available for detection and analysis by artificial intelligence programs. The semantic network is the Internet, where all the information is specially formatted not only for the convenience of the person, but also for the convenience of the machines that will also actively work with it. Due to this new information processing capabilities and new applications will appear.
As usual, the director of W3C encouraged developers to more actively use semantic languages, in addition to HTML. He drew attention to the importance of using URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) and the RDF (Resource Description Framework) standard for identifying information. If the creation of the Semantic Network goes in the intended direction, then the Internet will soon turn into an interactive environment for co-creation and work, as it was originally intended.
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Immediately after the presentation, time was set for questions from the audience, and the director of Google Search and member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Peter Norvig was the first to approach the microphone. He used the opportunity of public speaking to the fullest and even argued with the speaker, according to journalists who witnessed the dispute.
Peter Norvig spoke on behalf of Google and said that there were several obstacles on the way to the Semantic Network. The main one is the incompetence of webmasters: “We are dealing with millions of webmasters who cannot set up a web server and are not able to write HTML code”. It will be very hard for these unfortunate specialists to go over to the standards of the Semantic Network. Other challenges are the competition of commercial providers who do not wish to adopt uniform standards, and the scam, which is a natural part of human nature. “Every day we deal with people who are trying to raise their site in search results and sell Viagra to someone who is not looking for it at all,” said Peter Norvig.
Tim Berners-Lee agreed that scamming on the Internet is a problem, but he explained that the Semantic Network involves mainly identifying the source of information, not a description of the content. In general, Google should be more interested than anyone else in implementing the standards of the Semantic Web.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4189/
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