We _are_ taking machine learning more seriously (I claim some credit here). My team is integrating ML into Mathematica 10 as we speak. And we've experimented with deep learning. I think some interesting things will come out of that in the future.
I think a hybrid approach is pragmatic. There is much computational knowledge that can't be assembled from web scrapes, as Google's purchase of Metaweb indicates (anyone remember Google Squared?).
We _are_ taking machine learning more seriously (I claim some credit here). My team is integrating ML into Mathematica 10 as we speak. And we've experimented with deep learning. I think some interesting things will come out of that in the future.
I think a hybrid approach is pragmatic. There is much computational knowledge that can't be assembled from web scrapes, as Google's purchase of Metaweb indicates (anyone remember Google Squared?).