HTML is the solution to walled-garden lock-in? What? Those walled gardens already use HTML, including some of the semantic elements mentioned (plus ARIA semantic attributes, which are much more sophisticated).
> ChatGPT-like interfaces are likely the future of human data access.
And the whole point of artificial intelligence systems is that they don't require specialized "machine-readable" annotations in order to process input. ChatGPT (and its future offspring) can navigate regular websites the same way humans do. They don't need us to hold their hand. They know when a sequence of paragraphs constitutes a "list", without it having to be explicitly marked as such, etc.
What the author appears to be describing is simply an API mediated through HTML semantic elements. But if you have an API, you don't need a Large Language Model for automatic data access – a good old Python script using Beautiful Soup will do just fine. And it has the added benefit that it runs entirely locally.
> ChatGPT-like interfaces are likely the future of human data access.
And the whole point of artificial intelligence systems is that they don't require specialized "machine-readable" annotations in order to process input. ChatGPT (and its future offspring) can navigate regular websites the same way humans do. They don't need us to hold their hand. They know when a sequence of paragraphs constitutes a "list", without it having to be explicitly marked as such, etc.
What the author appears to be describing is simply an API mediated through HTML semantic elements. But if you have an API, you don't need a Large Language Model for automatic data access – a good old Python script using Beautiful Soup will do just fine. And it has the added benefit that it runs entirely locally.