One of the best applications of modern LLM-based AI is surfacing answers from the chaos of the internet. Its success can be partly attributed to our failure to build systems that organize information well in the first place.

Remember Semantic Web? The web was supposed to evolve into semantically structured, linked, machine-readable data that would enable amazing opportunities. That never happened.

The knowledge of the Internet were structured with rich semantic linking, then very primitive algorithms could parse them.