When Apple first released Siri, I wrote about it as a new era for how we access information. One that is more personal and interactive. Alexa and Siri took AI chatbots mainstream for basic q&a, digital assistance, and interaction. A decade later, thanks to natural language understanding, LLMs, vector indexes, and zero/few shot learning, the pot... See more

This made sense in a pre-AI world, where tagging was the only way to ensure retrieval. But now that AI has given us the gift of semantic search—which surfaces information based on meaning and vibes rather than keywords—we no longer need