AI developers are simply not equipped to deal with the intricacies of assessing and selecting KOS and integrating them appropriately into general purpose applications. It has been left to consultants or researchers to develop custom applications for niche industries where the benefits of more precise retrieval outweigh the difficulties and costs of KOS integration and development. However, I think there has always been an interest in general purpose categorizers for common business functions, just as there is an interest in universal classification systems for organizing general content collections. In this talk I discuss the origins and evolution of today’s AI ecosystem and argue that general purpose categorization systems would be welcome as part of the AI ecosystem assuming that they are intuitive, easy to use, kept up to date, and free.
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