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There is certainly much innovation to come in this area.

I'm thinking about Personal Knowledge Systems and their innovative ideas regarding visual representations of data (mind maps, website of interconnected notes, things like that). That could be useful for AI search. What elements are doing in a sense is building concept web, which would naturally fit quite well into visualization.

The ChatBot paradigm is quite centered around short easily digestible narratives, and will humans are certainly narrative generating and absorbing creatures to a large degree, things like having a visually mapped out counter argument can also be surprisingly useful. It's just not something that humans naturally do without effort outside of, say, a philosophy degree.

There is still the specter of the megacorp feed algo monster lurking though, in that there is a tendency to reduce the consumer facing tools to black-box algorithms that are optimized to boost engagement. Many of the more innovative approaches may involve giving users more control, like dynamic sliders for results, that sort of thing.



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