Artificial intelligence corrects errors on Wikipedia - Geeko

Source of knowledge acclaimed by students, Wikipedia still has many mistakes. From translation concerns to human errors, including the desire to spread fake news , Wikipedia is not always reliable, despite the investment of volunteer publishers. A situation that MIT researchers are trying to find a solution using artificial intelligence. Thanks to machine learning, the AI ​​developed by MIT researchers is able to identify and correct factual inconsistencies in the texts published on Wikipedia, all automatically.

And this is not an easy task since the participatory encyclopedia contains more than 52 million articles written in 309 languages. If the various pages are regularly consulted and corrected by voluntary editors, this does not make it possible to identify and eradicate all of the false information. This is where artificial intelligence comes in.

Towards automated knowledge

The researchers provided a significant amount of data to analyze to their algorithms, including pairs of sentences; one is a statement, the other is from Wikipedia. By comparing them, the AI ​​is able to list the pairs according to their correspondence. They can be "in agreement" when the factual information agrees, "in disagreement" when the information contradicts or "neutral" in the case where there is not enough information to decide.

To ensure that information is correct or up to date, artificial intelligence can access the Web and all of the knowledge it contains. She is able to correct articles that contain errors and to identify articles that convey misinformation. The researchers made sure that the corrections in their artificial intelligence imitated the style of human writing. Ultimately, they believe that updates to Wikipedia will no longer require human intervention.

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