How Wikipedia can shape the future of AI – Open Future
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How Wikipedia can shape the future of AI – Open Future
If you were looking to monitor and direct AI research in the past, you would likely have got it wrong, blocking or boosting work that eventually proved irrelevant, entirely missing the most important breakthroughs quietly brewing on the sidelines. Science and technology research is inherently unpredictable, exceptionally open, and growing fast. Gov
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So how exactly has Wikipedia kept its good name while newer platforms have failed? And what transferable lessons does it offer?
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The key is that knowledge is a human endeavor, and the development of Wikipedia and its sister projects depends on human collaboration and consensus. Machine learning tools can augment the process, but AI cannot replace volunteer Wikimedians.