This is the essay I was born to write... Or rather, this is the essay I was nurtured to write. I have spent decades looking at structured databases, powerful and rigid, and at text, infinitely malleable and flexible, but not terribly useful without a human to interpret it. [See disclosure at end.]
Long ago, I met Danny Hillis and David Waltz at Thinking Machines, the company Danny founded. It was one of those "AI" companies, focused on large text corpuses with...
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