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I see Google’s deal with Reddit is going just great…

  • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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    6 months ago

    Sure, if by “database” you mean “tool that takes every cell in every table, calculates their likelihood of those cells appearing near each other, and then discards the data”. Which is a definition of “database” that stretches the word beyond meaning.

    Natural language inputs for data retrieval have existed for a very long time. They used to involve retrieving actual data, though.