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Comment on Ask HN: Has AI breathed new life into Semantic (web) Technologies?

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Text, whether "semantic" or not, just gets tokenized and stored as weighted numbers in a model. It looses all its "semantic-ness."

So I would say the opposite is true. AI tools are removing the need for special declarative wrappers around a lot of text. For example, there's no need to surround a headline with <H1> when you can ask a GPT to "get the headlines from all these articles."

There are a couple kinds of wrapping that do help working with LLMs. That's markdown in prompts and JSON and XML in system instructions for MCP. But RAG refers to the non-LLM end of the process, getting data from files or a database, so the style of training data doesn't directly affect how that works.

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