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Is the SW AI on the Web?
And what about AI?


  • AI requires much more complicated logical inferences
  • There are lots of things RDF/OWL cannot express, eg:
    • the “uncle” relationship:
    • ∀x,z: ((∃y: (y parent x) ∧ (y brother z)) ⇒ (z uncle x))
    • temporal and spatial reasoning
    • fuzzy logic
    • …
  • AI often relies on a “Close World Assumption”…
    • “if something cannot be proven, it is false”
  • … but SW does not
    • “if something cannot be proven, we do not know”

Ivan Herman, W3C 9 (62)