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Better artificial intelligence is often associated with the detriment of a human workforce, but judging by some new practices by the team at Wikipedia HQ, it doesn’t have to be that way. In a report over at Wired, computer scientist Aaron Halfaker describes how Wikipedia recently began implementing an AI system he designed to detects vandalism and bogus edits on articles using machine learning – it can identify common patterns in vandalous edits, like a tendency for impropercharacterspacing. While on one hand that means less work for volunteers who look out for nefarious changes, Wikipedia belies the change will help reel in a swarm…

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