This is ridiculous. Why does everyone try to claim "Web 3.0" for over a decade?
Tim Berners-Lee said Web 3.0 was the semantic web, and allowing others to query data with SPARQL etc.
The Ethereum community said Web 3.0 involved signing transactions with private keys and storing data on blockchains rather than centralized servers.
Now someone is claiming that ChatGPT is the birth of the "real" Web 3.0 -- okay, first of all, chat has NOTHING to do with web. Web means hyperlinks and at the very least letting a user move between domains that serve content, and hopefully increasing interoperability using standard approaches like REST and JSON-LD, as opposed to a centralized provider that is owned by a tiny number of people, and relies on with Big Tech cloud providers (Microsoft). This isn't even a web, let alone open.
And secondly, why not already move on to Web 4.0? It's been a decade or more. Everyone is "denying" the last thing was Web 3.0 It's ridiculous. We have a semantic web now (Open Graph, for instance, or schema.org, and more). We have significant adoption also of "Web3"... crypto has co-opted the word cryptography, and Web 3... we just have to accept it https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/18/crypto-cr... ... many people on HN hate crypto so much that they think the Web3 term hasn't already been solidified, whereas somehow they do think that the word crypto has solidified to mean cryptocurrency rather than cryptography.
It's time to move on. Build applications that combine all these different tools. The Web has come a long way now. It can do PaymentRequest. It can do WebRTC. It can do Web Push. Just use the tools.
But definitely ChatGPT currently is everything that is OPPOSITE of what "The Web" was supposed to be. Maybe if an open source version comes out, and obliterates all current systems of content and reputation on the current web, then we can talk about "a new (dystopian) web", a kind of dark forest with chatbot swarms descending to shout down / annoy / destroy reputations of individuals and forums who espouse an inconvenient point of view. There is obviously going to be an arms race of bullshit drowning out actual thoughtful posting. But right now it's not even web.
Tim Berners-Lee said Web 3.0 was the semantic web, and allowing others to query data with SPARQL etc.
The Ethereum community said Web 3.0 involved signing transactions with private keys and storing data on blockchains rather than centralized servers.
Now someone is claiming that ChatGPT is the birth of the "real" Web 3.0 -- okay, first of all, chat has NOTHING to do with web. Web means hyperlinks and at the very least letting a user move between domains that serve content, and hopefully increasing interoperability using standard approaches like REST and JSON-LD, as opposed to a centralized provider that is owned by a tiny number of people, and relies on with Big Tech cloud providers (Microsoft). This isn't even a web, let alone open.
And secondly, why not already move on to Web 4.0? It's been a decade or more. Everyone is "denying" the last thing was Web 3.0 It's ridiculous. We have a semantic web now (Open Graph, for instance, or schema.org, and more). We have significant adoption also of "Web3"... crypto has co-opted the word cryptography, and Web 3... we just have to accept it https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/18/crypto-cr... ... many people on HN hate crypto so much that they think the Web3 term hasn't already been solidified, whereas somehow they do think that the word crypto has solidified to mean cryptocurrency rather than cryptography.
Jack Dorsey is using the new OPEN technologies from Microsoft / Sidetree protocol / DID standards to build "Web5", and he thankfully gave up his ideas of trademarking it: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/30/jack-dorseys-tb...
It's time to move on. Build applications that combine all these different tools. The Web has come a long way now. It can do PaymentRequest. It can do WebRTC. It can do Web Push. Just use the tools.
But definitely ChatGPT currently is everything that is OPPOSITE of what "The Web" was supposed to be. Maybe if an open source version comes out, and obliterates all current systems of content and reputation on the current web, then we can talk about "a new (dystopian) web", a kind of dark forest with chatbot swarms descending to shout down / annoy / destroy reputations of individuals and forums who espouse an inconvenient point of view. There is obviously going to be an arms race of bullshit drowning out actual thoughtful posting. But right now it's not even web.