How knowledge graphs are making AI understand our world

The success and failure of a logic-based computing approach

Jean-marc Buchert
Towards Data Science
6 min readJan 28, 2022

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You might have heard about Google’s Knowledge Graph, which provides literal answers to users’ queries on search engines.

Well, these knowledge graphs have a long history in computer science. Researchers already tried in the ’70s to create a…

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