Wikipedia turns to a surprising ally in the fight against misinformation: Meta’s AI

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by on July 11, 2022 at 3:54 pm
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Wikipedia is a unique fountain of free knowledge, but the world’s most popular encyclopaedia isn’t always accurate.  The site’s crowdsourced editing model is prone to vandalism and biases. While its reputation for accuracy has improved, even Wikipedia doesn’t consider itself a reliable source. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that oversees Wikipedia, regularly explores new solutions for these shortcomings. Its latest effort harnesses the power of AI. The foundation recently teamed up with Meta to improve Wikipedia’s citations. These references are used to corroborate crowdsourced information on the site, but they’re often missing, incomplete, or inaccurate. While Wikipedia volunteers double-check…

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GitHub Copilot is the first real product based on large language models

Jul10
by on July 10, 2022 at 8:31 pm
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This article is part of our series that explores the business of artificial intelligence Since GPT-2, there has been much excitement around the applications of large language models. And in the past few years, we’ve seen LLMs used for many exciting tasks, such as writing articles, designing websites, creating images, and even writing code. But as I have argued before, there’s a wide gap between showing a new technology do something cool and using the same technology to create a successful product with a workable business model. Microsoft, I think, just launched the first real LLM product with the public…

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Social media companies should be converted into nonprofits

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by on July 9, 2022 at 3:10 pm
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This article was originally published on Built In by David Ryan Polgar. “Maybe Twitter should be a nonprofit,” said the high-level Trust and Safety employee. We were standing in Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters discussing the company’s current calamities, namely high levels of hate and harassment and low levels of actual profitability. Rumors were swirling about its possible impending sale. My companion clearly believed that the company was important to the future of communication and, by extension, of democracy itself. Unfortunately, its ad-based business model was in obvious conflict with serving the public interest. If a platform centers its revenue around…

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