> And the whole point of artificial intelligence systems is that they don't require specialized "machine-readable" annotations in order to process input.
I don't require a cup to hold my drink. That doesn't make cups useless or undesirable.
Point being: if a machine can make sense of the veritable clusterfuck that is the "pile of infinitely-nested divs" status quo, then surely it'd have a much easier time making sense of pages that actually use HTML properly. If you're an AI trying to figure out how far along something is, which is gonna be a more obvious indicator?
I don't require a cup to hold my drink. That doesn't make cups useless or undesirable.
Point being: if a machine can make sense of the veritable clusterfuck that is the "pile of infinitely-nested divs" status quo, then surely it'd have a much easier time making sense of pages that actually use HTML properly. If you're an AI trying to figure out how far along something is, which is gonna be a more obvious indicator?
The first example is hyperbolic, sure, but only slightly.