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Wasn't "3.0" supposed to be crypto? Is it AI now? It's had to keep track.


No, Web 3.0 was the Semantic Web. Thankfully, the silly idea of having major-number versions for the entire internet died when that it happen. Now we can safely ignore anybody who tries to do it.


I think we're in a new era, so I consider this version of the web to be "AAI 1", and next year it will be "AAI 2", and so on. This era will be hereafter referred to as "in the year of the AI overlord", or "Anno Domini Artificialis Intellegentiae Artificialis" (according to google translate).


I think some of the crypto companies tried to get cute and leapfrog 3.0 going straight to 4.0, so that would put us at either 5.0, 4.0, 3.1, 2.2, or 2.1 depending on how you feel about the crypto space, and which groups you were validating


I think AI is 4.0

EDIT> Maybe its how some poeple call the 4th dimension time when there is infact a 4th spatial dimension. So I guess if this is the 3rd Data dimension like what is the 4th one?


You’re conflating concepts. FWIW, Web3 is snake oil or wishful thinking at best. As much as people like to bang on the old Web 2.0, it still holds up conceptually. And if you only know it as a buzz word, I suggest you go back and familiarize yourself with it if you’re looking for incremental change.

Who knows, maybe a Web 3.1 will deliver us from Enshitification.




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