Re: The Semantic Web Vision is finally ready to hit escape Velocity!

Hello Kingsley,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 07:22:18PM -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> Naturally, there's a live demo

Which does not work. Personally, I take this as a good omen.

> *In my opinion, the arduous journey getting The Semantic Web Project to
> escape velocity is over.*

It will never come back? :-)

> Today's LLM-powered AI Agents have been trained on all the key
> specifications, dramatically reducing implementation and usability friction
> that held things back for decades.

It's dangerous to anthropomorphize LLM-powered AI - an alien intelligence - 
but it's also very useful to quickly communicate views and points. So I'm gonna 
do it here:

I don't think the availability of cheap labor is what held things back for 
decades.

That this labor can be characterized as artificial sociopaths with savant 
syndrome poses additional problems of trust outside "niche" applications like
making harmless demos, generating formally verifiable work or explaining things
to students who will have their understanding tested without AI help.

"Never trust AI output" is my current credo.

> Simply tell your Agent (*a context rich harness wrapped around your
> preferred LLM*), in natural language, what you want done with the data???and
> what kind of artifact you want to visualize the results.

Now that seems like a sufficiently bounded example. The data is already there.
Getting, understanding and massaging that data was always the main problem.
The agent only generates a read query plus visualization, which is discarded
afterwards.

But this is not specific to the Semantic Web and not what held it back. 

I can see how trusting the agent is less important here, but I don't think
it is irrelevant.

> The standards were already there.
> The infrastructure was already there.
> The data was already there.

The last statement does the most work here, hand waving away the real problem -
if you ask me.
 
Regards,

Michael Brunnbauer

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