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Semantic web

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The future development of web 3.0 and artificial intelligence

DALLE-3 image created by Mark Pegrum (2024) via Microsoft Copilot, using the prompt ‘The future development of web 3.0 and artificial intelligence, in the style of digital art’

Within the section of the Digital Learning website focused on web 3.0 learning, this subsection focuses on the semantic web, also known as the intelligent web. It covers generative AI – ranging from genAI chatbots through to AI agents – as well as search engines, whose recent shift in an AI-powered direction means that in many ways they now straddle web 2.0 and web 3.0.

Last update: February 2026.

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  • AI literacy to the fore October 7, 2025
    XXIIIrd International CALL Conference Brisbane, Australia 3-5 October, 2025 As expected, the International CALL Conference had a strong focus on integrating generative AI effectively into education, entailing the need for both educators and students to develop their AI literacy. Given the conference theme of Inclusive CALL, many papers also discussed the ambivalent role played by genAI […]

Last updated 2026 · Content may be reused under CC BY 4.0 Licence except as indicated. Homepage image used under licence from Shutterstock (2017). Section title page images used under licence from iStock (2017).

 

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