Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has proposed a surprisingly simple way to make Wikipedia articles more transparent and trustworthy
Wikipedia has a problem. And Meta, the not-too-long-ago rebranded Facebook, may just have the answer.
Citation needed Say, for example, I want to confirm the entry on President Barack Obama’s Wikipedia article stating that Obama traveled to Europe and then Kenya in 1988, where he met many of his paternal relatives for the first time. All I have to do is to look at the citations for the sentence and, sure enough, there are three separate book references that seemingly confirm that the fact checks out.
The fact that the hyperlinks don’t support my alternative facts at all, but rather lead to unrelated pages on Digital Trends is only revealed when you click them. For the 99.9 percent of readers who have never met me, they might leave this article with a slew of false impressions, not the least of which is the surprisingly low barrier to entry to the world of modeling.
It’s here that Meta thinks that it’s come up with a way to help. Working with the Wikimedia Foundation, Meta AI has developed what it claims is the first machine learning model able to automatically scan hundreds of thousands of citations at once to check if they support the corresponding claims. While this would be far from the first bot Wikipedia uses, it could be among the most impressive.
“There is a component like that, [looking at] the lexical similarity between the claim and the source, but that’s the easy case,” Petroni said. “With these models, what we have done is to build an index of all these webpages by chunking them into passages and providing an accurate representation for each passage … That is not representing word-by-word the passage, but the meaning of the passage.
This could, at least in theory, include not just text, but multimedia as well. Perhaps there’s a great authoritative documentary that’s available on YouTube the system could direct users toward. Maybe the answer to a particular claim is hidden in an image somewhere online.
Brasil Últimas Notícias, Brasil Manchetes
Similar News:Você também pode ler notícias semelhantes a esta que coletamos de outras fontes de notícias.
Will Smith Returns To Instagram With A Meta Post About Being Off InstagramWill Smith has only used his Instagram account twice since the Oscars—both times to apologize for slapping Chris Rock—he returned Friday evening with a gag.
Consulte Mais informação »
Logitech G Reveals Logitech Chorus for Meta Quest 2LogitechG has unveiled a brand new item for the MetaQuest2 as players can get their hands on the Logitech Chorus. VR
Consulte Mais informação »
Following Mar-a-Lago raid, lawmakers want information from platforms on threats against law enforcement | EngadgetFollowing Mar-a-Lago raid, lawmakers want information from platforms on threats against law enforcement
Consulte Mais informação »
Sheryl Sandberg Marries Former NBC News Producer Tom BernthalThe outgoing Meta COO got engaged to Bernthal, whose brother is actor Jon Bernthal, in 2020.
Consulte Mais informação »
The Rehearsal closes up shop, for now, with a cathartic season finaleNathan Fielder's meta experiment finishes its first chapter with 'Pretend Daddy'
Consulte Mais informação »