Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. When it comes to crawling the open web to build large corpuses for data ...

In the realm of research, a significant shift has occurred, marking the transition from the physical confines of libraries and archives to the expansive digital universe. This transformation signifies ...

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Even as AI companies have managed to reduce their chatbots’ tendency to hallucinate, a certain degree of Clavin-ism has remained endemic to the category. But I’ve been playing with a new ChatGPT ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has an even grander vision for what the web can be. He and his allies have been working through the World Wide Web Consortium on an evolving ...

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More AI chatbots now offer a deep research option, through which they can investigate a topic for you. Acting as autonomous AI agents, the bots will surf the web on your behalf, find the right online ...